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Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web
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Is OrbitDB a good option for a collaborative, crowd-sourced distributed metadata database for a file organizer with auto-tagging? #996

Closed ghost closed 11 months ago

ghost commented 2 years ago

I would like to do a collaborative, crowd-sourced distributed database for a file organizer with auto-tagging where each user has a copy and changes are voted between the users and applied to all databases when they are approved. Is OrbitDB a good option for this or is there anything simpler?

ghost commented 2 years ago

What I've thought is, there is a public database to which only the application can write and all users can read it. There is a feed with every edit that a user has made. Other users vote on that feed. The application adds a feed entry to the public database when it has enough votes.

How do I make sure that only the application and not the user is allowed to write in the public database?

Erudition commented 1 year ago

Peerbit may be a better choice for that scale of collaboration. However, the idea of "the application and not the user" doesn't really work in a p2p database since they are one in the same, no way to prevent a user from acting on behalf of "the application". So it sounds like you need a server for running "the application" part, or a smart contract. Alternatively, you can look into Holochain which is more than a p2p database and allows things such as not permitting writes unless they're signed with validity based on custom rules (such as "had enough votes") that are enforced by every peer.

haydenyoung commented 11 months ago

I would recommend reaching out to the community to discuss your requirements in more detail.