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Increasing access to blockchain and ledger databases

All Things Distributed

With HARA, this hard-to-obtain data on small farms is collected and authenticated, giving these farmers access to resources they've never had before. A major component to the system that HARA created is blockchain.

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Database Technology in a Blockchain World

VoltDB

It’s just about official—blockchain has taken over the world. Or, to be more accurate, the idea of blockchain has taken over the world. become Long Blockchain Corp. and Kodak revive itself with blockchain aspirations. Even still, the ecosystem of blockchain projects is quickly filling up.

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Database Technology in a Blockchain World

VoltDB

It’s just about official—blockchain has taken over the world. Or, to be more accurate, the idea of blockchain has taken over the world. become Long Blockchain Corp. and Kodak revive itself with blockchain aspirations. Even still, the ecosystem of blockchain projects is quickly filling up.

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Fine-grained, secure and efficient data provenance on blockchain systems

The Morning Paper

Fine-grained, secure and efficient data provenance on blockchain systems Ruan et al., We haven’t covered a blockchain paper on The Morning Paper for a while, and today’s choice won the best paper award at VLDB’19. ” In other words, smart contracts cannot access historical blockchain states in a tamper-evident manner. .”

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Storage Autoscaling With Percona Operator for MongoDB

Percona

Previously, deploying and maintaining a database usually meant many burdensome chores and repetitive tasks to ensure proper functioning. ViewBlock , a blockchain explorer, uses the Percona Operator for MongoDB to store critical data.

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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

The Web provides decentralised publishing and direct access to unstructured data ( searching / querying that data has turned out to be a pretty centralised affair in practice though). AnyLog wants to do for structured (relational) data what the Web has done for unstructured data, with coordinators playing the role of search engines.

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Database Resolutions for 2018

VoltDB

So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a new leaf in 2018 and build on their successes. The post Database Resolutions for 2018 appeared first on VoltDB. Create Better, Real-Time Customer Experiences.