Traditional Databases

“And actually no Regular database is designed with this kind of workload in mind. Databases, for the most part, assume that you want to keep your data around for a very long time. So, these kind of unique aspects of time series make it kind of a degenerate case…”

“So a blockchain is a database, so we shouldn't overthink it, but it's different from a traditional database in two critical ways. First of all, it's shared. So in other words, it's distributed to every participant who is participating in the network. And then …”

“The traditional databases are just snapshots in time and a lot of interesting patterns in the data are getting lost when you rolled up, when you roll up into these traditional reporting systems or reporting cubes.”