"Why the sudden enthusiasm for blockchains?" Options: a) You want to use the worst database in the world or b) justifies Bitcoin investment.
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"Hang on Patrick, how can the database be the worst in the world? Isn't that hyperbole?" OK, let me pitch you on a new enterprise database:
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Transaction processing times: theoretically unbounded, but we'll try for a poisson distribution averaging ~5 minutes for ACK, ~55 commit.
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We'll support an append only log, and that's all. This will let clients have maximum freedom in how they interpret transaction history.
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We'll support pretty complicated auth/auth for writing. For reads? Oh, we'll do the most common use case for databases: worldwide public.
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Scaling? Heck yes, bring on the big data. We will support a blistering 1.7 kilobytes per second. Easily sufficient for worldwide use.
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Durability and availability? We will almost never be unavailable for more than a few consecutive hours; less than 8 hours deleted per year.
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Replication strategy: Hah, it's built in. No need for backups, sharding, or failover: we simply keep all data everywhere all the time.
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Library support: We have a single C++ codebase you have to be bug-for-bug compatible with. Alternative clients joining network may break it.
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TCO: You may previously have used our competitor, Postgres, on a $3 a month server. Our requirements are similar; only 1 hydroelectric dam.
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Our DB is built on this concept called "digital signatures", which are magic. We chain the magic. You can't get the magic without the chain.
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