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Rather than trying to scale up blockchain technology, BigchainDB starts with a big data distributed database and then adds blockchain characteristics - decentralized control, immutability and the transfer of digital assets.

# Towards One Million Writes per Second

Each write is recorded on the blockchain database without the need for Merkle Trees or sidechains. Details in our whitepaper, section 8.

# Native Support of Multiassets

With no native currency on BigchainDB, any asset, token or currency can be issued.

# Customizable

Design your own private network with custom assets, transactions, permissions and transparency.

# Rich Permissioning

Set permissions at transaction level to ensure a clear separation of duties and enforce Chinese walls.

# Federation Consensus Model

Decentralized control via a federation of voting nodes makes for a super-peer P2P network.

# Open Source

Open sourced to the community so that everyone can use it and build their own applications on top of it.

# Public or Private

Roll out your own public or private networks for specific industry use cases.

# Petabytes Capacity Coming soon

Load up hashes, metadata and files onto the BigchainDB so every asset can reside on the blockchain database.

# Query Coming soon

Leverage efficient big data query capabilities out of the box.

# Linear Scaling Coming soon

The more nodes added, the higher the throughput and the higher the storage capacity.

Our Roadmap

For more insight, read our whitepaper.

# Made for the Decentralization Ecosystem

BigchainDB is complementary to decentralized storage, processing and communication building blocks. It can be used side by side with higher-level decentralized computing platforms and applications, and protocols for identity, financial assets, intellectual property and sidechains. BigchainDB fills a gap in the decentralized stack.

## Traditional Stack

BigchainDB can be seamlessly integrated into the traditional stack as a blockchain database for decentralized timestamping, certificates, smart contracts and transactions.

## Blockchain Stack

BigchainDB fills a missing gap in the emerging decentralized stack as a blockchain database that complements existing platforms, processing and file systems.

# Blockchains Meet Big Data

BigchainDB combines the key benefits of distributed DBs and traditional blockchains, with an emphasis on scale.

We built BigchainDB on top of an enterprise-grade distributed DB, from which BigchainDB inherits high throughput, high capacity, a full-featured NoSQL query language, efficient querying (coming soon) and permissioning.

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