What is OrbitDB?
It is a serverless, distributed, peer-to-peer database. It uses IPFS as its data storage and IPFS Pubsub to automatically sync databases with peers. It’s an eventually consistent database that uses CRDTs for conflict-free database merges making it an excellent choice for decentralized apps (dApps), blockchain applications and offline-first web applications.
OrbitDB is a tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.
OrbitDB is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to OrbitDB's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses OrbitDB?
Developers
10 developers on StackShare have stated that they use OrbitDB.
OrbitDB Integrations
OrbitDB's Features
- Peer-to-Peer Database
- Serverless
- Automatically sync databases with peers
OrbitDB Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to OrbitDB?
Gun
GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine.
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
