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| - | There will be multiple ‘types’ of nodes on the Qortal Network | + | There are multiple ‘types’ of nodes on the Qortal Network. The first and ‘main’ node type is called a ‘full node’. A full node is a node that stores the entire blockchain database. A full node is the recommended node type for Minters, as they are meant to be the nodes that ‘power and support’ network, and a full node is the best type of node to accomplish that. However, given that Qortal is meant to be able to be run by anyone and that not everyone has a substantial amount of storage space on which to hold the entirety of the blockchain forever, there is another node type in development called ‘lite nodes’. |
| The concern over scalability in regard to the size of the Qortal blockchain is what spurred the development of the lite node type, but it also spurred the development of a new method for blockchain storage on full nodes. | The concern over scalability in regard to the size of the Qortal blockchain is what spurred the development of the lite node type, but it also spurred the development of a new method for blockchain storage on full nodes. | ||
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| Full nodes in archive version 2.0 will have the option of ‘flat file offloading’ for their blockchain database files. What this means is that a full node can choose to store the majority of their ‘older data’ in the blockchain in ‘flat files’ and reduce the size of their full node database considerably. This type of database storage does not impact the full node in regard to retaining all of the data from every block since Genesis. It will still allow calls for older data to be made without the need for the entire database to be in its default SQL-compatible format. | Full nodes in archive version 2.0 will have the option of ‘flat file offloading’ for their blockchain database files. What this means is that a full node can choose to store the majority of their ‘older data’ in the blockchain in ‘flat files’ and reduce the size of their full node database considerably. This type of database storage does not impact the full node in regard to retaining all of the data from every block since Genesis. It will still allow calls for older data to be made without the need for the entire database to be in its default SQL-compatible format. | ||
| - | With the release of version 2.0, Qortal | + | With the release of version 2.0, Qortal |
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| A future development in regard to data storage will be the ability for public data users to browse a ‘data market’ where data nodes with algorithmically defined ‘reputation’ scores are available to choose (and pay a fee for) hosting another redundant copy of their data. The initial iteration will not have this and will be a ‘merit only’ model, wherein users will choose to become a peer for the data they believe has more merit, and will not do so simply for monetary reward. | A future development in regard to data storage will be the ability for public data users to browse a ‘data market’ where data nodes with algorithmically defined ‘reputation’ scores are available to choose (and pay a fee for) hosting another redundant copy of their data. The initial iteration will not have this and will be a ‘merit only’ model, wherein users will choose to become a peer for the data they believe has more merit, and will not do so simply for monetary reward. | ||
| - | Another future development will be ‘private data’ (for things like documents, pictures, and data that will never be shared publicly as well as 100% encrypted to the account that put it up). Each user will use the ‘data market’ to define which nodes and how many copies of their data they would like to have, and pay a fee for that data. There are literally countless end use cases for Qortal’s data storage concepts. | + | |
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