BlockchainDB - Towards a Shared Database on Blockchains

Summary: BlockchainDB uses blockchains as storage and adds a DB layer with traditional data management techniques like sharding. Standardized key/value queries enable data sharing; aims to boost performance and scalability while reducing adoption complexity. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5745
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.1286931e-05
Overall Rank: 6,283 | 56.30%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3320237

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,612	LedgerDB: A Centralized Ledger Database for Universal Audit and Verification	2020	VLDB	8.4525247e-05
7,711	chainifyDB: How to get rid of your Blockchain and use your DBMS instead	2021	CIDR	4.6717986e-05
11,484	Practical Security and Privacy for Database Systems	2021	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
360	BLOCKBENCH: A Framework for Analyzing Private Blockchains	2017	SIGMOD	0.00025790132

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