Rather than trying to scale up blockchain technology, the BigchainDB design starts with a "big data" distributed database and then adds blockchain characteristics - decentralized control, immutability and the transfer of digital assets.
BigchainDB is complementary to decentralized storage, processing and communication building blocks. It can also be used side by side with higher-level decentralized computing platforms and applications, identity protocols, financial asset protocols, IP assets protocols and glue protocols. BigchainDB provides a bridge to an eventually fully decentralized system.
BigchainDB combines the key benefits of distributed DBs and traditional blockchains, with an emphasis on scale.
Many BigchainDB use cases are like traditional blockchain use cases, except focused on situations where higher throughput, more capacity, lower latency, better querying, or richer permissioning is necessary.
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1 million writes/s, petabytes of capacity and rich permissioning to power both open and private blockchain networks.