orbitdb

Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web (by orbitdb)

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  • OrbitDB reaches version 1.0 after 8 years of development
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Sep 2023
  • Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2023
    OrbitDB is not well-funded, but there's fresh work happening recently by some dedicated volunteers: https://github.com/orbitdb/orbitdb/commits/main
  • Current Progress of IPFS
    3 projects | /r/ipfs | 22 Apr 2023
  • orbit-db VS db3 - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 15 Jan 2023
  • Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk (March 26, 2022)
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2022
  • Decentralised public immutable database
    2 projects | /r/ipfs | 26 Sep 2022
  • Ask HN: Is there a descentralized DB with a simple social conflict resolution?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 May 2022
    I've been thinking it might be practical to build a simple decentralized database, where agents just know each other, so conflict resolution does not need to be so strong and can rely on the social layer.

    I think this applies to most databases, but I'm particularly thinking of internal enterprise databases, some social networks, any federated database system, and different devices of a single user

    I'm thinking of this features:

    1- Append-only?, full history of operations. Deletes / edits do not remove data, they only modify the "active state"

    2- Agents are public keys or similar (DIDs?)

    3- Operations are signed, and receivers verify if operation is valid, and sender is allowed

    4- Operations form a Merkel-DAG (similar to git, they link to the tips of current "active state", like a commit/merge in git)

    So far I think I've basically described [OrbitDB](https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db)

    Consensus is where things get real hard, [OrbitDb seems to use a last-write-wins CRDT](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22920204), and although I don't know the details of orbitDb, I think for many simple use-cases, conflicts can just be resolved on the social layer. But I think we need to provide agents with good tools to resolve conflicts

    I'll try my best here with some ideas:

    - When merging, we can order operations by their timestamp, if operations enter conflict, raise it to the conflicting agents, or someone with permission to solve them.

    If an agent makes public an operation that forks its own history, mark agent as malicious or compromised, alert other agents, this needs resolution on the social layer, you have proof of misconduct, an agent has signed diverging operations

    Any operation becomes fully settled if you have proof that all agents of your system have referenced it directly or indirectly through newer operations.

    Timestamps can be upgraded by using @opentimestamps to get proof that an operation existed at time X (prevents creation of operations in hindsight). Though this does not prove operation has been made public

  • How to make a crowdsourced distributed metadata database?
    2 projects | /r/AskProgramming | 12 May 2022
    Both use OrbitDB: Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web. JavaScript. MIT license. repo
  • Release: New features for Nalli
    2 projects | /r/nanocurrency | 3 May 2022
    I think a wallet-agnostic memo solution is definitely the way. Having wallets that end up (partly) incompatible is only gonna hurt the UX. Maybe a decentralised DB solution like OrbitDB or GunDB can be the best way forward, although I haven't dove deeply into the docs yet.
  • Building a decentralized database
    4 projects | /r/Database | 25 Mar 2022
    Checkout this https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db peer-to-peer database for the decentralized Web.
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orbitdb/orbitdb is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

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