Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

INTRODUCTION - Over the past few decades, the importance of data has grown dramatically. Deemed “the new oil”1 in 2006, today data ...

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The non-relational database explosion of the late 2000s was motivated by several disenchantments with the—until then—dominant relational database model. A key concern for many involved the overly ...

Anyone can view crypto transactions on public blockchains at any time. Viewing crypto transaction history reveals a transaction’s status, amount, and sender and recipient wallet addresses. Each ...

A transaction on the Ethereum blockchain is technically initiated by an external account owner (not a contract). For example, if User A sends 1 Ether (ETH) to User B, the action of debiting from one ...