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The eth devs are busy working on sharding - the same idea as traditional databases like Mongo where a primary key decides which node the data will reside. The

The eth devs are busy working on sharding - the same idea as traditional databases like Mongo where a primary key decides which node the data will reside. The main problem here is that a contract residing on shard A might reference a contract on shard B (much like a join between 2 shards). They are approaching this by using "transaction receipts" that would be passed from shard to shard. https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ

Klathmon 9y ago
Don't they have something roughly equivalent to the Lightning Network on ETH called the Raiden Network as well? Or am I misunderstanding that?
- binocarlos 9y ago
  Indeed - Raiden is all about payment channels - funds are deposited on the main chain and then payments can be sent over channels with no fee. Only in the case of dispute or cashing out is the main chain used to resolve the conflict. This means you could make many transactions per second of very small amounts (useful for things like gambling sites or micro-payments for content). Micro-Raiden is already active which are one-to-one payment channels - the full Raiden network is not yet live but will facilitate one-to-many channels. * https://raiden.network/faq.html https://raiden.network/faq.html * https://raiden.network/micro.html https://raiden.network/micro.html
- thinkmassive 9y ago
  You are correct, and the name Raiden is a reference to the Mortal Kombat character who shoots lightning from his fingertips. µRaiden (two-party transfers only, no routing) is already live on Ethereum mainnet: https://raiden.network/micro.html https://raiden.network/micro.html
TylerE 9y ago
> traditional databases like Mongo Kids these days. I think my head just exploded.
- ttul 9y ago
  Mongo: The unreliable partitioned database.
- binocarlos 9y ago
  Ok - I meant non-blockchain databases
  - abakker 9y ago
    I think he meant the part where you called Mongo "traditional" as your example. (vs say, DB2)

Klathmon 9y ago

Don't they have something roughly equivalent to the Lightning Network on ETH called the Raiden Network as well? Or am I misunderstanding that?

binocarlos 9y ago
Indeed - Raiden is all about payment channels - funds are deposited on the main chain and then payments can be sent over channels with no fee. Only in the case of dispute or cashing out is the main chain used to resolve the conflict. This means you could make many transactions per second of very small amounts (useful for things like gambling sites or micro-payments for content). Micro-Raiden is already active which are one-to-one payment channels - the full Raiden network is not yet live but will facilitate one-to-many channels. * https://raiden.network/faq.html https://raiden.network/faq.html * https://raiden.network/micro.html https://raiden.network/micro.html
thinkmassive 9y ago
You are correct, and the name Raiden is a reference to the Mortal Kombat character who shoots lightning from his fingertips. µRaiden (two-party transfers only, no routing) is already live on Ethereum mainnet: https://raiden.network/micro.html https://raiden.network/micro.html

TylerE 9y ago

> traditional databases like Mongo Kids these days. I think my head just exploded.

ttul 9y ago
Mongo: The unreliable partitioned database.
binocarlos 9y ago
Ok - I meant non-blockchain databases
- abakker 9y ago
  I think he meant the part where you called Mongo "traditional" as your example. (vs say, DB2)