Big Chain DB- BlockChain and Distributed Database Hybrid

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Bigchain DB allows users access to a huge distributed database, with blockchain attributes, like decentralized control, immutability and the transfer of digital assets. With high throughput, low latency, a full-featured NoSQL query language, this is a scalable solution to current blockchain limitations.
Trent McConaghy, CTO at Bigchain DB, discusses the pros and cons of various database structures, including blockchain implementations.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.0	Future Technologies is poised to transform our lives for better or, for the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here, means these technologies are now here and
0:16.8	starting to be used.
0:18.2	We're just around the corner.
0:19.8	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.4	Hi this is Richard Jacobs with future tech podcast. Almost here, round-the-corner
0:30.8	technology. And today I have Trent McConaughey from Big Chain DB.com
0:36.4	He's the CTO and co-founder. Trent, how you doing?
0:41.8	Very well. Thanks for having me. Yeah. All right, can you tell listeners what does Big Chain DB do in the blockchain world? What do you guys about?
0:58.4	Sure. so overall we see that in the blockchain world there has been challenges with scale and also with you know our blockchain into, yes or no, etc.
1:04.2	And given this long history of databases
1:06.6	going back decades and decades, where
1:08.8	they have really great performance
1:10.1	and scalability, creativity, all this sort of thing, we said, why not merge the best of both worlds?
1:15.6	So overall, Big Chain DB is a blockchain database.
1:19.1	It's got these nice characteristics of databases, but then it also brings in these nice characteristics that databases but then it also brings in these
1:22.8	these nice characteristics that blockchains have like
1:25.1	decentralization immutability and assets. So Big TenGB is yeah a database
1:30.5	that has blockchain characteristics.
1:33.0	Yeah, what's, say more about that, what are more the differences between a database and a blockchain?
1:40.0	Yeah, so traditional databases, you know, traditional
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