Intro to Gun - A P2P Decentralized Database
With all the attention and hype that web3 technology gets, it’s easy to forget that it’s not the only (or even the best) way to build all decentralized software. The core benefit that we get from blockchains is an immutable, historical ledger of ever...
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I’ve worked quite a bit with GunDB over the years (including building its documentation platform and several P2P projects on top of it), so it’s always nice to see breakdowns like this one.
At some point I ended up building my own alternative, GenosDB, mostly because I needed a few things that differed from the traditional Gun model:
The bundle is free for personal and commercial use, so if you already understand the GunDB approach and feel like comparing design choices or testing another P2P/RTC architecture, it might be interesting to try. If you’re curious about how these design choices look in practice, the implementation and specs are openly available on my GitHub profile estebanrfp/gdb.