Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain

Re:Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain by jchanimal on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @03:23PM (#15403637)

Yes. The point of the post is that with global ACID, distributed ledgers among trusted parties are just regular applications. You can’t do this with eventually consistent databases. What I’m describing is a genuine solution our customers are choosing FaunaDB for. For their distributed ledger requirements, a blockchain is overkill.

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Re:Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain by eternalban on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @07:11PM (#15405562)

And the point of the GP was that that does not address the OP point that it is "just a distributed database"

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Re:Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain by jchanimal on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @07:49PM (#15405790)

A distributed database with global consistency, which is a new category. FaunaDB (and similar databases) allows a distributed ledger among trusted parties to be “just a database application.”

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Re:Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain by hossbeast on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @08:02PM (#15405842)

Great. Just take the word blockchain out of the article, it adds nothing but confusion.

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Re:Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain by epistasis on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @09:19PM (#15406148)

I disagree, with the number of people pushing blockchain when they just want a distributed ledger, an article like this is quite helpful.

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Re:Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain by userpass on Thursday October 05, 2017 @06:33AM (#15408048)

So you're telling me... it's a distributed database? Global consistency is nothing new.

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