...And It's Gone: How Ephemeral Blockchains Can Fix Data Bloat

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• databases perfect for storing the state of an Ephemeral Blockchain permanently without losing its content

• To solve this data bloat problem, blockchain companies have proposed numerous solution

• An Ephemeral Blockchain can be defined as a chain whose blocks do not live forever on the blockchain but are retired as soon as the purpose of the blockchain recording the transactions is complete.

• Databases are great at what they were designed for. They can store various relations, objects, graphs, maps and polyglot data for later retrievals.

• Using efficient storage technologies, databases make their data available for analysis, mining, and analytics. They can be backed up cheaply either online or offline and are used by all organizations.

• The database will only store the relevant end facts all the while compressing the blockchain by a substantial degree.

• We can then destroy the original blockchain and, if needed, retrieve it later from the data stored in the database

• retrieving data from Ephemeral Blockchains.