A state of the art of decentralized web — Part 4
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A state of the art of decentralized web — Part 44. DatabasesThis is the fourth and last chapter of a series about web decentralization. As we have seen in the previous chapter, the #blockchain and smart contracts are great to store records for some specific use cases (like financial transactions), but they are not going to replace your whole #database. Here we are going to focus on distributed and decentralized databases: What are the current candidates and how do they compare each other. Then we will conclude this series and step back on what we have learned.SQL, that good old friend!Series articlesIntroductionFile storageBlockchain and smart contractsDatabasesIntroductionFor once, let’s start with a theorem — the CAP theorem:The CAP theorem states that it is impossible for a distributed (...)
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