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.
Each write is recorded on the blockchain database without the need for Merkle Trees or sidechains.
Load up hashes, metadata and files onto the BigchainDB so every asset can reside on the blockchain database.
The more nodes added, the higher the throughput and the higher the storage capacity.
With no native currency on BigchainDB, any asset, token or currency can be issued.
Leverage efficient big data query capabilities out of the box.
Design your own private network with custom assets, transactions, permissions and transparency.
Set permissions to ensure a clear separation of duties and enforce Chinese walls.
Decentralized control via a federation of voting nodes makes for a super-peer P2P network.
Open sourced to the community so that everyone can use it and build their own applications on top of it.
A public version for the world and a private one for specific industry use cases.
For more insight, read our whitepaper.
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.
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, and permissioning.
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.
There are many ways you can contribute to the BigchainDB project.