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An Evaluation of Blockchain Application Requirements and Their Satisfaction in Hyperledger Fabric

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Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2022)

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Abstract

Blockchain applications may offer better fault-tolerance, integrity, traceability and transparency compared to centralized solutions. Despite these benefits, few businesses switch to blockchain-based applications. Industries worry that the current blockchain implementations do not meet their requirements, e.g., when it comes to scalability, throughput or latency. Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) is a permissioned blockchain infrastructure that aims to meet enterprise needs and provides a highly modular and well-conceived architecture. In this paper, we survey and analyse requirements of blockchain applications in respect to their underlying infrastructure by focusing mainly on performance and resilience characteristics. Subsequently, we discuss to what extent Fabric’s current design allows it to meet these requirements. We further evaluate the performance of Hyperledger Fabric 2.2 simulating different use case scenarios by comparing single with multi-ordering service performance and conducting an evaluation with mixed workloads.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-2.2/private-data/private-data.html, last accessed 12-22-2020.

  2. 2.

    See https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-2.2/couchdb_as_state_database.html, last accessed 12-22-2020.

  3. 3.

    See https://www.hyperledger.org/use/caliper.

  4. 4.

    See https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric-samples/tree/master/chaincode/fabcar.

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This work has been funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) grant number 446811880 (BFT2Chain).

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Ben Toumia, S., Berger, C., Reiser, H.P. (2022). An Evaluation of Blockchain Application Requirements and Their Satisfaction in Hyperledger Fabric. In: Eyers, D., Voulgaris, S. (eds) Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. DAIS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13272. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16092-9_1

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