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            <h1 class="section-title">Blockchains meet Big Data.</h1>
            <p class="section-description">BigchainDB combines the key benefits of distributed DBs and traditional blockchains, with an emphasis on scale.</p>
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        <p>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, and permissioning. Nodes can be added to increase throughput and capacity.</p>

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            <figcaption>BigchainDB compared to the Bitcoin blockchain and traditional distributed DBs</figcaption>
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            <h1 class="section-title">Made for the Decentralization Ecosystem.</h1>
            <p class="section-description">BigchainDB can sit side-by-side with other decentralized storage, processing, and communication building blocks. It can be included in higher-level decentralized computing platforms and applications but will work with centralized computing blocks and platforms too.</p>
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                <figcaption>BigchainDB fills a missing gap in the emerging decentralized stack as a blockchain database that complements existing platforms, processing (business logic) and file systems.</figcaption>
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                <figcaption>BigchainDB can be seamlessly integrated into the traditional stack as a blockchain database for decentralized timestamping, certificates, smart contracts and transactions.
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            <h1 class="section-title">Features.</h1>
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                        <h1 class="feature__title">One Million TPS and Counting</h1>
                        <p class="feature__text">Each transaction is recorded on the blockchain without the need for Merkle Trees or sidechains.</p>
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                        <h1 class="feature__title">Petabytes Capacity</h1>
                        <p class="feature__text">Load up hashes, metadata and files onto the BigchainDB so every asset can reside on the blockchain.</p>
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                        <h1 class="feature__title">Native Support of Multiassets</h1>
                        <p class="feature__text">With no native currency on BigchainDB, any asset, token or currency can be issued.</p>
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                        <h1 class="feature__title">Query</h1>
                        <p class="feature__text">Leverage big data query capabilities out of the box.</p>
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                        <h1 class="feature__title">Customizable</h1>
                        <p class="feature__text">Design your own private network with custom assets, transactions, permissions and transparency.</p>
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                        <h1 class="feature__title">Rich Permissioning</h1>
                        <p class="feature__text">Set permissions to ensure a clear separation of duties and enforce Chinese walls.</p>
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                        <h1 class="feature__title">Federation Consensus Model</h1>
                        <p class="feature__text">Federation of nodes with voting permissions, that is, a super-peer P2P network.</p>
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                        <h1 class="feature__title">Open source</h1>
                        <p class="feature__text">Open sourced to the community so that everyone can use it and build their own applications on top of it.</p>
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                        <h1 class="feature__title">Public or Private</h1>
                        <p class="feature__text">A public version via trusted nodes for the world and a private one for specific industry use cases.</p>
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            For more insight, read our <a href="/whitepaper/">whitepaper</a>.
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            <h1 class="section-title">Timeline.</h1>
            <p class="section-description">Private beta is shipping now. <a href="/contact/">Contact us</a> for more information. Public Bigchain will be released soon</p>
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                <span class="timeline__entry__title">Whitepaper</span>
                <span class="timeline__entry__time">Early 2015</span>
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                <span class="timeline__entry__title">Private Beta</span>
                <span class="timeline__entry__time">Jan 2016</span>
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                <span class="timeline__entry__title">Public</span>
                <span class="timeline__entry__time">Soon</span>
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