Take away the mining and all you've got is basically a less capable version of Git - which is somewhat the same data structure (a merkle tree) So to answer you

Take away the mining and all you've got is basically a less capable version of Git - which is somewhat the same data structure (a merkle tree) So to answer your question indirectly, unless you like using inappropriate, inefficient data structures--if you are gonna be tracking shipping containers or the mail.... a good old fashioned database is what you need.