The earthly landscape we walk upon usually changes very slowly. It’s measurable in centimeters or inches per year. But the digital landscape, and specifically the distributed database landscape, is changing at a massive rate. You can read more about the tremendous changes currently occurring in the industry in our recent blog on this next tech cycle.
Before we can look at the way these changes are impacting the distributed database landscape, we have to define what we mean by the term “distributed database.” That’s the purpose of this article.