Decentralized Databases: The Power of Layered Computation
Recently I have been thinking about establishing my own best practices when working with decentralized databases. While this endeavor is primarily for my benefit, I though I would share it so that others might benefit, or perhaps just provide some food for thought… — after all, I’m just a passionate enthusiast trying to make sense of it all!
Over the coming weeks I plan on publishing a couple of stories with whatever insights I discover. 🕵️ I’d love your company, hit that follow button and all that jazz 🎷, otherwise — happy reading!
Principle: Use layered calculations
- Create a pyramid of computation where each peer is in charge of specific calculations,
- that can be based on values created by other peers,
- typically sums etc. calculated by that peer own their own data.
Reason and explanation
When doing calculations on streaming data, the amount of calculations needed can quickly become unwieldy.
This is because we essentially need to re-calculate every time new data arrives.
This is inefficient as every peer has to redo the same work over and over again, and individually — i.e. all of them has to do the work.
