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)
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Authors
- 1. Muhammad El-Hindi (Technical University of Darmstadt)
- 2. Martin Heyden (Technical University of Darmstadt)
- 3. Arvind Arasu (Microsoft)
- 4. Carsten Binnig (Technical University of Darmstadt)
- 5. Donald Kossmann (Microsoft)
- 6. Ravi Ramamurthy (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{elhindi_sigmod19,
title = {{BlockchainDB - Towards a Shared Database on Blockchains}},
author = {El-Hindi, Muhammad and Heyden, Martin and Arasu, Arvind and Binnig, Carsten and Kossmann, Donald and Ramamurthy, Ravi},
series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3299869.3320237},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3320237},
year = {2019}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,861 | LedgerDB: A Centralized Ledger Database for Universal Audit and Verification | 2020 | VLDB | 7.932894e-05 |
| 7,825 | chainifyDB: How to get rid of your Blockchain and use your DBMS instead | 2021 | CIDR | 5.4446555e-05 |
| 11,989 | Practical Security and Privacy for Database Systems | 2021 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 485 | BLOCKBENCH: A Framework for Analyzing Private Blockchains | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00017474502 |
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