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Re:BigchainDB – A scalable blockchain database by willitpamp573 on Thursday November 02, 2017 @06:56PM (#15615113)
How is this different from Mysql with sharding+encryption?
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Re:BigchainDB – A scalable blockchain database by trentmc on Thursday November 02, 2017 @07:38PM (#15615379)
Neither sharding nor encryption give "decentralized", "immutable", or "assets". E.g. how many sysadmins can MySQL have? (And the answer is 1. Hence, not decentralized.)
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