The foundational technologies underlying Bitcoin are a secure, distributed transaction ledger, timestamp server and proof of work algorithm implemented as a blockchain ledger. As Satoshi put it his ...

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A blockchain is a network of decentralized and distributed data (ledger), meaning the users share the ownership and management of the network through computer nodes. As a database, blockchain stores ...

Blockchain—it might sound a bit like a medieval fabric, but there’s nothing primitive about this database that upends expectations of what a digital archive is capable of. Most databases provide ...

There is now a general consensus among enterprises, governments and institutions that it is an absolute prerequisite to store certain kinds of data in a tamper-proof manner. Less clear is the best way ...

Seriously, What the Hell Is a Blockchain? Blockchains are often explained with a lot of tech jargon by people in mathematics, cryptography, and network engineering. It turns out that blockchains are ...

ProvenDB, a new blockchain-enabled database service, has launched an early access program. The MongoDB-compatible database service aims to make it easier for developers to build cutting-edge apps ...

For the past few years, database vendors have been busily enhancing their cloud offerings and consolidating the innovations that arose more than 10 years ago from the big data and NoSQL movements.

Microsoft Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The main event doesn’t kick off until next Monday morning in downtown Seattle, but ...

SQD now serves up to 1.4 petabytes of blockchain data per day, while protocols and applications using its infrastructure support more than US$20 ...