BigchainDB is introduced as a scalable blockchain database designed to integrate the benefits of traditional databases with those of blockchains, such as decentralization and immutability. The document outlines various types of databases over time, highlighting BigchainDB's unique features and use cases across different sectors including digital art, identity, and supply chain. It emphasizes the potential for BigchainDB to transform how data is managed globally, promoting its accessible deployment and integration.

1. Database for the PlanetDatabase for the Planet
Berlin
Space Shack
Feb 28, 2017
BigchainDB Hackfest

3. “Bitcoin is a database for the planet”
and
“Blockchains are databases”

4. “Bitcoin is a database for the planet”
But…
Where’s the queries? Where’s the scale?

5. “Bitcoin is a database for the planet”
But…
Queries? Scale?
….
What if we had this?
What would that look like?
Could we truly get a database at planetary scale?

6. The first “Blue Ocean” DBs: Relational DBs
Benefits: powerful structured querying
Winner: Oracle, 80s and 90s

7. The next “Blue Ocean” DB:
Website-ready DBs
New benefits: lightweight for startups
Winner: MySQL, early 2000s

8. The next “Blue Ocean” DB: Distributed / NoSQL DBs
New benefits: “Big data” scale, flexible schemas
Winner: MongoDB, late 2000s-now

9. The next blue ocean DB: blockchain database
New benefits: decentralized, immutable, native assets
Who: BigchainDB

10. BigchainDB Architecture:
Two-Layer consensus
MongoDB
BigchainDB
Federation
Alice
Bob
Blockchain consensus
Add tolerance to
double-spends + other
byzantine faults
DB consensus
Fault-tolerant consensus

11. BigchainDB: best of traditional DBs & blockchains
= a blockchain database
Immutability
Decentralized Control
Native Assets
Scalable
Queryability
Operationalized
Traditional
Dist. Databases
Traditional
blockchains
BigchainDB

12. The Stack

13. Centralized (but distributed)
compute infrastructure
FILE SYSTEM
e.g. S3, HDFS
DATABASE
e.g. MySQL,
MongoDB / Atlas
APPLICATION
PLATFORM
e.g. Azure
PROCESSING
e.g. EC2

14. Partly decentralized compute
infrastructure (the silly way)
APPLICATION
PLATFORM
e.g. Azure
“Blockchain”
e.g. Bitcoin

15. Partly decentralized
compute infrastructure
APPLICATION
PLATFORM
e.g. Azure,
PROCESSING
e.g. EC2
FILE SYSTEM
e.g. S3, HDFS
DATABASE
e.g. MySQL, MongoDB,
BigchainDB/IPDB

16. Fully decentralized compute
infrastructure
E-GOLD / E-CASH
Bitcoin, zcash
FILE SYSTEM
e.g. S3, HDFS, IPFS
DATABASE
e.g. MySQL, MongoDB/Atlas
BigchainDB/IPDB
APPLICATION
PLATFORM
e.g. AWS, Azure, Monax, BlockApps
PROCESSING
e.g. EC2, Ethereum, Hyperledger, Tendermint, Lisk

17. No need to re-do the whole stack,
Just add one more (special) database.
On Deploying

18. Getting Started: bigchaindb.com -> Quickstart

21. Use Cases

22. Vertical:
IP – Music rights
Value proposition:
A streaming service owned by all

23. Vertical:
IP – Digital art
Value proposition:
Enables creators of digital art to get
compensated, via claiming attribution &
licensing
ascribe

24. Interledger
Vertical:
Identity
Value proposition:
Low-friction assurance, sovereign personal data
Authenteq
©ITU/L.Berney, (CC BY 2.0)

25. Interledger
Vertical:
Government – Land Registry
Value proposition:
Low-cost registry, less risk of corruption
BenBen
©ITU/L.Berney, (CC BY 2.0)

26. Vertical:
ID - Education Credentials
Value proposition:
reduce fraudulent degrees, lower HR
friction
Recruit

27. Vertical:
Energy
Value proposition:
manage $ flow in energy deregulation

28. Vertical:
Supply Chain / Health
Value proposition:
government-mandated
transparent $ flow

29. “Decentralized Atlas”
Runs BigchainDB + MongoDB
Anyone can write, anyone can read
Permissions as assets
Sweet spots: ID, IP
IPDB
(Interplanetary Database)

30. A few more
Financial network interoperability – Interledger / Ripple
Loyalty and Reward System – CapGemini
Financial Infrastructure – 17 POCs with one partner
Voting – SettleMint
National identity system (>10M people) - <coming soon>
Fix social media filter bubble – <coming soon>
Personal data consent – <coming soon>
<<waiting list on IPDB – 200+ of orgs>>

31. BigchainDB is a scalable blockchain database
For the planet, and the enterprise.
Let’s hack! Let’s ship!
www.bigchaindb.com
github.com/bigchaindb
gitter.im/bigchaindb/bigchaindb
Trent McConaghy
trent@bigchaindb.com
@trentmc0