As DeFi and NFT trend increases, blockchains and dapps are also growing at a faster pace. Dapps are continued to be built by developers, a high growth rate can be seen which is great, but the issue of storage comes around. As traditional databases are very risky and vulnerable to modification and changes which may result in loss of data, a secure database storage solution is needed. Blockchains serve as the best solution to this issue but, they are expensive to use and for dApps to be built. This again brings the issue of data storage, to which Bluzelle provides a perfect solution.
DApps want a secure and cost-effective solution for the storage of their data and Bluzelle does this. Bluzelle is perfect specifically for decentralized Apps to store their data securely and in a cost-effective way. It is a decentralized storage solution that is built on blockchain technology so, it provides the security of blockchain as well as reduces the cost for data storage for dApps. It best works for dApps because it ensures that they store their data securely, in such a way that the data remains decentralized and mutable. These days dApps are a lot common and are used by many small and large businesses so as to run their financial transactions safely, to track goods across the world without the interference of any central authority.
Bluzelle is powered by cosmos and tendermint, where cosmos is an ecosystem of blockchains that can scale and interoperate with each other and a decentralized network of blockchains that are parallel and independent, each powered by BFT consensus algorithms like tendermint consensus. Any dApp project on blockchain can take benefit and store their data on Bluzelle All the problems of data breaches, performance trouble, and network failures are promised to be solved by Bluzelle. It can be referred to as “Airbnb of databases” as developers pay for the storage space for using the decentralized database.
Bluzelle has a network that is made up of independent storage nodes and the data from all across the world is stored at multiple nodes at no extra cost. The data is secure, if one node or more nodes go down users can easily backup their data from the computer hardware that Bluzelle rents out which is perfect for dApps. This way storage becomes cheaper and at the same time, users can gain the advantage of a secure, decentralized, and highly scalable database.
COMPARISON BETWEEN DATABASES:
PAST SINGLE SYSTEM DATABASE:
Multiple sources of failure, Expensive to scale, No privacy, No immutability, Performance limitations.
PRESENT CLOUD DATABASE:
Single source of failure, Expensive to scale, No privacy, No immutability, Some performance limitations.
FUTURE BLUZELLE DECENTRALIZED DATABASE:
No point of failure, Scales efficiently, Highest privacy, Immutable, No performance limitations.
BLUZELLE FEATURES AND HOW DOES IT MANAGE IT?
Bluzelle implements swarming technology to provide all the features of reliability, scalability, and high throughput in performance. Bluzelle is a meta-swarm comprised of multiple swarms. A swarm is a large group of nodes that work together to store and manage data.
- It’s swarming technique ensures the best performance and it retrieves the data from the closest node on the leaf swarm reducing the latency period and/or retrieve the data from the fastest nodes increasing the speed. The data is retrieved in parallel, leading to high performance.
- Using the concept of swarm computing, Bluzelle follows a model where all the data, each unit is replicated 100% in a single leaf swarm. As only one swarm is occupied with data, the remaining swarms remain dispersed and thus, secure.
- Bluzelle utilizes horizontal scaling and every swarm is another unit of horizontal scaling at metaswarm level. Each node at swarms acts as another agent of horizontal scaling.
