lemonviv / forkbase

An Efficient Storage Engine for Blockchain and Forkable Applications

ForkBase

ForkBase is a distributed data storage system with rich semantics and features that unifies and adds values to many classes of next-generation applications. In particular, ForkBase is mainly designed for applications that require internal data representation with versions, chains, and branches. Typical applications include Git-like versioning control, Blockchain, Collaborative analytics, and versioned OLTP. ForkBase focuses on providing such applications with high performance, flexibility, and high-level semantics while reducing application-level development and maintenance effort.

• Features
• Architecture

Dependency

Compulsory

• cmake >= 2.8
• g++ >= 4.9
• protobuf >= 2.6.1
• boost >= 1.66.0
• czmq >= 4.0.2
• libzmq >= 4.2.1
• gflags >= 2.1.0

Optional

For RDMA

• libibverbs >= 1.0
• libboost_thread >= 1.5.4 (Thread)

For Cryptographic Hashing

• libcrypto++

For Storage

• RocksDB >= 5.8
• LevelDB
• Snappy

Getting Started

Build ForkBase

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. && make

Start ForkBase

$ ./bin/ustore_start.sh

Stop ForkBase

# stop the service
$ ./bin/ustore_stop.sh

# stop the service and clean the data
$ ./bin/ustore_clean.sh

References

• Usage Guide
• Commandline Console API
• Http RESTful API

Contribute

Please follow our Development Guidelines to submit pull requests.

Citation

If you use our code in your research, please kindly cite:

@article{10.14778/3231751.3231762,
  author = {Wang, Sheng and
            Dinh, Tien Tuan Anh and
            Lin, Qian and
            Xie, Zhongle and
            Zhang, Meihui and
            Cai, Qingchao and
            Chen, Gang and
            Ooi, Beng Chin and
            Ruan, Pingcheng},
  title = {Forkbase: An Efficient Storage Engine for Blockchain and Forkable Applications},
  journal = {Proc. VLDB Endow.},
  volume = {11},
  number = {10},
  pages = {1137--1150},
  year = {2018}
}

Contact

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