István, Zsolt ; Sorniotti, Alessandro ; Vukolic, Marko (2018)
StreamChain: Do Blockchains Need Blocks?
doi: 10.48550/arXiv.1808.08406
Report, Bibliographie
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)
Permissioned blockchains promise secure decentralized data management in business-to-business use-cases. In contrast to Bitcoin and similar public blockchains which rely on Proof-of-Work for consensus and are deployed on thousands of geo-distributed nodes, business-to-business use-cases (such as supply chain management and banking) require significantly fewer nodes, cheaper consensus, and are often deployed in datacenter-like environments with fast networking. However, permissioned blockchains often follow the architectural thinkining behind their WAN-oriented public relatives, which results in end-to-end latencies several orders of magnitude higher than necessary. In this work, we propose StreamChain, a permissioned blockchain design that eliminates blocks in favor of processing transactions in a streaming fashion. This results in a drastically lower latency without reducing throughput or forfeiting reliability and security guarantees. To demonstrate the wide applicability of our design, we prototype StreamChain based on the Hyperledger Fabric, and show that it delivers latency two orders of magnitude lower than Fabric, while sustaining similar throughput. This performance makes StreamChain a potential alternative to traditional databases and, thanks to its streaming paradigm, enables further research around reducing latency through relying on modern hardware in datacenters.
| Typ des Eintrags: | Report |
|---|---|
| Erschienen: | 2018 |
| Autor(en): | István, Zsolt ; Sorniotti, Alessandro ; Vukolic, Marko |
| Art des Eintrags: | Bibliographie |
| Titel: | StreamChain: Do Blockchains Need Blocks? |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Publikationsjahr: | 25 August 2018 |
| Verlag: | arXiv |
| Reihe: | Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing |
| Auflage: | 1.Version |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arXiv.1808.08406 |
| Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract): | Permissioned blockchains promise secure decentralized data management in business-to-business use-cases. In contrast to Bitcoin and similar public blockchains which rely on Proof-of-Work for consensus and are deployed on thousands of geo-distributed nodes, business-to-business use-cases (such as supply chain management and banking) require significantly fewer nodes, cheaper consensus, and are often deployed in datacenter-like environments with fast networking. However, permissioned blockchains often follow the architectural thinkining behind their WAN-oriented public relatives, which results in end-to-end latencies several orders of magnitude higher than necessary. In this work, we propose StreamChain, a permissioned blockchain design that eliminates blocks in favor of processing transactions in a streaming fashion. This results in a drastically lower latency without reducing throughput or forfeiting reliability and security guarantees. To demonstrate the wide applicability of our design, we prototype StreamChain based on the Hyperledger Fabric, and show that it delivers latency two orders of magnitude lower than Fabric, while sustaining similar throughput. This performance makes StreamChain a potential alternative to traditional databases and, thanks to its streaming paradigm, enables further research around reducing latency through relying on modern hardware in datacenters. |
| Zusätzliche Informationen: | Titeländerung mit Version 2 (Febr. 2020) |
| Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): | 20 Fachbereich Informatik 20 Fachbereich Informatik > Distributed and Networked Systems |
| Hinterlegungsdatum: | 23 Jan 2023 10:20 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 11 Aug 2023 08:56 |
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