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Ethereum vs Stellar: What are the differences?
What is Ethereum? 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.
What is Stellar? Fast database snapshot and restore tool for development. Stellar allows you to quickly restore database when you are e.g. writing database migrations, switching branches or messing with SQL. PostgreSQL and MySQL are supported.
Ethereum and Stellar are primarily classified as "Blockchain" and "Database" tools respectively.
Ethereum and Stellar are both open source tools. Ethereum with 4.63K GitHub stars and 1.55K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Stellar with 3.58K GitHub stars and 108 GitHub forks.
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
Pros of Stellar
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Cons of Ethereum
- High fees and lacks scalability1