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Ethereum vs Ripple: What are the differences?
Developers describe Ethereum as "Open source platform to write and distribute decentralized applications". A decentralized platform for applications that run exactly as programmed without any chance of fraud, censorship or third-party interference. On the other hand, Ripple is detailed as "A real-time gross settlement system, currency exchange and remittance network". It is an open source protocol which is designed to allow fast and cheap transactions.
Ethereum and Ripple can be categorized as "Blockchain" tools.
Ethereum is an open source tool with 4.73K GitHub stars and 1.63K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Ethereum's open source repository on GitHub.
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Pros of Ethereum
- Decentralized blockchain, most famous platform for DApp7
- Resistant to hash power attacks2
- Rich smart contract execution environment2
- #2 on capitalization after Bitcoin2
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Cons of Ethereum
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- High fees and lacks scalability1
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What is Ethereum?
A decentralized platform for applications that run exactly as programmed without any chance of fraud, censorship or third-party interference.
What is Ripple?
It is an open source protocol which is designed to allow fast and cheap transactions.
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What are some alternatives to Ethereum and Ripple?
Dash
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Litecoin
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MySQL
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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.