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A Survey of Decentralized Storage and Decentralized Database in Blockchain-Based Proposed Systems: Potentials and Limitations

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Blockchain and Applications, 5th International Congress (BLOCKCHAIN 2023)

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Abstract

Blockchain technology has geared towards many fields and utilities. Blockchain, as an efficient data storage, is one of the use cases that aims to provide a trustable and immutable data storage. This study provides a systematic review and evaluation of peer-reviewed publications aimed at pointing out the potential of blockchain as a data storage and/or queryable distributed database. The study presented herein shows that the undertaking of using blockchain technology as a storage or database technology is increasing exponentially due to the decentralization, immutability, and security that blockchain offers. The methodology used to conduct this study encompassed searching in several scientific databases and selecting related publications indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) ranking. The outcomes of the selected studies have been extracted, synthesized, and presented. As a conclusion of this analysis, we have detected that blockchain suffers from many challenging limitations, such as the absence of a well-defined data indexing structure, data retrieval methods and queries, significant response times, and storage capacity and performance limitations.

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This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (State Research Agency), grant number PID2019-109644RB-I00, and Junta de Andalucía (Andalusian Regional Government), grant number B-TIC-320-UGR20.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Palestine Ahliya University, 1041, Bethlehem, Palestine

    Muhammed Tmeizeh

  2. Department of Software Engineering, Higher Technical School of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Carlos Rodríguez-Domínguez & María Visitación Hurtado-Torres

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  1. Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

    José Manuel Machado

  2. BISITE research group, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Javier Prieto

  3. Guarda Polytechnic Institute, Guarda, Portugal

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  4. Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

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Tmeizeh, M., Rodríguez-Domínguez, C., Hurtado-Torres, M.V. (2023). A Survey of Decentralized Storage and Decentralized Database in Blockchain-Based Proposed Systems: Potentials and Limitations. In: Machado, J.M., et al. Blockchain and Applications, 5th International Congress. BLOCKCHAIN 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 778. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45155-3_21

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