Comparison of Distributed Ledgers by implementing a Game of Thrones Use Case
Ladies and Gentlemen!
Welcome, to our brandnew series about various distributed ledger technologies (DLT’s).
Currently, there are many projects out in the open claiming that they will disrupt the industry. Unfortunately, many of them don’t have a working alpha release yet, or don’t deliver on the promises made. It was our goal, to filter out those frameworks and platforms for decentralized applications, that are useful and have the ability to add value to our lives.
Implement a Game of Thrones based use case
First, we reviewed around 20 DLT’s by reading their vision, theory and documentation. Then, of those 20, we chose 8 promising technologies to develop a minimalist use case on. We wanted to find out, how difficult it is to get a very simple program up and running on each DLT, and compare our findings in the end.
To make it somewhat comparable, we tried to implement the same use case in every DLT. The use case should be very minimalistic, but a little bit more difficult than a boilerplate ‘Hello World’ demonstration. Because we just had the finale this year, we decided to implement a use case that’s based on — CLICKBAIT ALERT — Game of Thrones!
Don’t get too excited, there’s no Tyrion (yet).
The requirements of the use case are simple:
- 2 or more alliances are at war with each other.
- An alliance consists of one or more families.
- Due to intrigues and other events, families can change alliances.
- We represent the alliances and the families as assets.
- The possibility to create a family or an alliance is a transaction.
- The attachment of a family to an alliance is a transaction.
- The transfer of a family to another alliance is a transaction.
This is the functionality that our use case has to display.
What we will release
As of writing this introduction, all chosen DLT’s are already tested. In the upcoming three months, we will regularly release individual articles about each DLT that we took a look at.
The DLT’s we reviewed are:
- Icon: read our review here
- Holochain: read our review here
- Hashgraph: read our review here
- BigChainDB: read our review here
- Dragonchain
- 0bsNetwork
- Hyperledger Fabric + Composer
- Ethereum
All code we used will be available on GitHub. In our implementations, we only tried to interact with the DLT’s via command line interface or code, and do not provide a user interface (UI).
Please note, that even as we have a strong blockchain background, it was not our intention to develop high quality applications. Probably our implementations could have been done much cleaner, simpler, and more efficient. However, the goal was to see whether the effort to implement real world use cases on those DLT’s is reasonable.
So, stay tuned, stay stable, and we’ll see each other in the upcoming articles!
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