State of Public and Private Blockchains: Myths and Reality
Summary: Assesses public vs. private blockchains, debunking myths and clarifying practical realities for data management. Argues private blockchains as a pragmatic alternative to traditional DBs, comparing features and outlining future research directions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. C. Mohan (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{mohan_sigmod19,
title = {{State of Public and Private Blockchains: Myths and Reality}},
author = {Mohan, C.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3299869.3314116},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3314116},
year = {2019}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 2,861 | LedgerDB: A Centralized Ledger Database for Universal Audit and Verification | 2020 | VLDB | 7.932894e-05 |
| 7,839 | ExDRa: Exploratory Data Science on Federated Raw Data | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.4432099e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 485 | BLOCKBENCH: A Framework for Analyzing Private Blockchains | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00017474502 |
| 3,275 | ForkBase: An Efficient Storage Engine for Blockchain and Forkable Applications | 2018 | VLDB | 7.4691437e-05 |
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