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Re:OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web by haadcode on Monday April 20, 2020 @12:16AM (#22921050)
To clarify here, OrbitDB's core is an append-only, immutable log CRDT. While a mouthful, what is gives, is a distributed (decentralized) database operations log. Almost any type of database, or data structure, can be then built on top of that log. The log in OrbitDB is a Merkle-DAG [1], so, a graph.

Key-Value databases, feeds, and other data model types that OrbitDB supports by default, are all built on that log. You can also create your custom database types, ie. custom data models.

[1] https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/what-is-a-merkle-dag/386/4

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Re:OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web by haadcode on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:04AM (#22921798)
The log described above is this https://github.com/orbitdb/ipfs-log
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Re:OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web by sagichmal on Monday April 20, 2020 @12:37AM (#22921131)
What makes it a CRDT?
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Re:OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web by haadcode on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:11AM (#22921295)
Posted this in another reply above, but give this a read: "Merkle CRDTs" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00107).
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