--- layout: base tagline: 'Meet BigchainDB. The scalable blockchain database.' front_page: true hero_video_name: northern-light js: page-front.min.js --- {% include hero-video.html %} <section id="features" class="section section-features"> <div class="row"> <header class="section-header"> <h1 class="section-title">This is BigchainDB</h1> <p class="section-description"> 1 million writes/s, petabytes of capacity and rich permissioning to power both open and private blockchain networks. </p> </header> <figure class="graph-bigchain img--responsive"> {% include svg/graph-bigchain.svg %} </figure> <div class="section-features__main grid grid--full grid-small--fit grid--gutters"> <div class="grid__col"> <svg class="icon"> <use xlink:href="/assets/img/sprite.svg#icon-graph"></use> </svg> <h3>1 Million Writes per Second</h3> </div> <div class="grid__col"> <svg class="icon"> <use xlink:href="/assets/img/sprite.svg#icon-servers"></use> </svg> <h3>Petabyte Capacity</h3> </div> <div class="grid__col"> <svg class="icon"> <use xlink:href="/assets/img/sprite.svg#icon-scaling"></use> </svg> <h3>Linear Scaling</h3> </div> </div> <p class="lead">BigchainDB allows developers and enterprise to deploy blockchain proof-of-concepts, platforms and applications with a scalable blockchain database.</p> <div class="section-features__detail grid grid--full grid-small--columns grid--gutters grid--center"> <div class="grid__col grid__col--4"> <p>BigchainDB fills a gap in the decentralization ecosystem: a decentralized database, at scale. It is complementary to decentralized processing platforms like Ethereum, and decentralized file systems like InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).</p> </div> <div class="grid__col grid__col--2"> <div class="text-center"> <a href="/features" class="btn btn-primary">How it works</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="section section-getstarted background--darker"> <div class="row row--wide"> <header class="section-header"> <h1 class="section-title">Get Started</h1> <p class="section-description">Install and Run</p> </header> <div class="grid grid--gutters grid--full grid-medium--half grid--center"> <div class="grid__col"> <p>BigchainDB provides a rich API to create, query and transfer digital assets.</p> <p><a href="https://bigchaindb.readthedocs.org/">Read documentation</a> | <a href="https://github.com/{{ site.github.org }}/{{ site.github.repo }}"><svg class="icon icon--social icon--github"><use xlink:href="/assets/img/sprite.svg#github"></use></svg> GitHub</a></p> </div> <div class="grid__col"> <figure class="terminal highlight js-tracking-terminal"> <code> <span class="comment"># install bigchaindb</span> <span><span class="ne">pip</span> install <span class="cp">bigchaindb</span></span><br/> <span class="comment"># start bigchaindb</span> <span><span class="ne">bigchaindb</span> start</span> </code> </figure> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="section section-whitepaper background--photo"> <div class="row"> <header class="section-header"> <h1 class="section-title">Whitepaper</h1> <p class="section-description">BigchainDB: A Scalable Blockchain Database</p> </header> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-sm" href="/whitepaper/"> <svg class="icon"> <use xlink:href="/assets/img/sprite.svg#icon-documents"></use> </svg> Read our Whitepaper </a> </div> </section>