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| Software Components | The Ocean Protocol network is brought to life by many interacting symbiotic software components. |
Before reading this page, you should understand some Ocean-specific terminology.
Aquarius
Every marketplace must run an instance of Aquarius. Aquarius provides an API to an off-chain database ("OceanDB") to store and manage metadata about data assets: the assets listed in that marketplace. The off-chain database might be MongoDB, Elasticsearch or BigchainDB.
Brizo
Publishers run Brizo to manage access control to assets on behalf of asset owners or data service providers.
Keeper
A computer running a blockchain client (such as Parity Ethereum) where the associated blockchain network is running the Ocean Protocol 💧 keeper-contracts (smart contracts).
See also: Set Up a Keeper
Pleuston
An example marketplace front-end for consumers to explore, download, and publish data assets within the Ocean Protocol network. Implemented using React and 🦑 squid-js.
Squid Libraries
Client libraries used by applications (such as Pleuston or Jupyter notebooks) to interact with Ocean components, including Keepers, Aquarius nodes, Brizo nodes, etc.
Secret Store
A Parity Secret Store: software for distributed key pair generation, distributed key storage, and threshold retrieval. It's used to store asset access-control keys.
We have created multiple clients for integrating the Parity Secret Store into Ocean: