Is it good practice to store blockchain data on an offchain database to facilitate rich queries?












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Be it Ethereum/EOS/IOTA etc, is it good practice to store lets say smart contract data on an offchain database like SQL/NoSQL to further allow rich query capabilities ? Are'nt we introducing a single point of failure with this design ?










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  • With my little experience, I would suggest not to store all the contract data in off-chain database but to only store data which has computational limitations within smart contract such as Array of information, DateTime operations, Identity management etc.,
    – Diwa
    Nov 12 at 9:38












  • If you want to query mainnet data and you don't want to manage the infra, you can use Google BigQuery cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/…. But if you prefer self-hosted solution, you can try looking at ETHQL here github.com/ConsenSys/ethql.
    – Zulhilmi Zainudin
    Nov 12 at 22:36










  • I'm afraid ETHQL only allows querying of blocks, transactions and accounts but not internal storage of smart contract
    – siva
    Nov 21 at 10:50
















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Be it Ethereum/EOS/IOTA etc, is it good practice to store lets say smart contract data on an offchain database like SQL/NoSQL to further allow rich query capabilities ? Are'nt we introducing a single point of failure with this design ?










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  • With my little experience, I would suggest not to store all the contract data in off-chain database but to only store data which has computational limitations within smart contract such as Array of information, DateTime operations, Identity management etc.,
    – Diwa
    Nov 12 at 9:38












  • If you want to query mainnet data and you don't want to manage the infra, you can use Google BigQuery cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/…. But if you prefer self-hosted solution, you can try looking at ETHQL here github.com/ConsenSys/ethql.
    – Zulhilmi Zainudin
    Nov 12 at 22:36










  • I'm afraid ETHQL only allows querying of blocks, transactions and accounts but not internal storage of smart contract
    – siva
    Nov 21 at 10:50














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  • With my little experience, I would suggest not to store all the contract data in off-chain database but to only store data which has computational limitations within smart contract such as Array of information, DateTime operations, Identity management etc.,
    – Diwa
    Nov 12 at 9:38












  • If you want to query mainnet data and you don't want to manage the infra, you can use Google BigQuery cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/…. But if you prefer self-hosted solution, you can try looking at ETHQL here github.com/ConsenSys/ethql.
    – Zulhilmi Zainudin
    Nov 12 at 22:36










  • I'm afraid ETHQL only allows querying of blocks, transactions and accounts but not internal storage of smart contract
    – siva
    Nov 21 at 10:50


















  • With my little experience, I would suggest not to store all the contract data in off-chain database but to only store data which has computational limitations within smart contract such as Array of information, DateTime operations, Identity management etc.,
    – Diwa
    Nov 12 at 9:38












  • If you want to query mainnet data and you don't want to manage the infra, you can use Google BigQuery cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/…. But if you prefer self-hosted solution, you can try looking at ETHQL here github.com/ConsenSys/ethql.
    – Zulhilmi Zainudin
    Nov 12 at 22:36










  • I'm afraid ETHQL only allows querying of blocks, transactions and accounts but not internal storage of smart contract
    – siva
    Nov 21 at 10:50
















With my little experience, I would suggest not to store all the contract data in off-chain database but to only store data which has computational limitations within smart contract such as Array of information, DateTime operations, Identity management etc.,
– Diwa
Nov 12 at 9:38






With my little experience, I would suggest not to store all the contract data in off-chain database but to only store data which has computational limitations within smart contract such as Array of information, DateTime operations, Identity management etc.,
– Diwa
Nov 12 at 9:38














If you want to query mainnet data and you don't want to manage the infra, you can use Google BigQuery cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/…. But if you prefer self-hosted solution, you can try looking at ETHQL here github.com/ConsenSys/ethql.
– Zulhilmi Zainudin
Nov 12 at 22:36




If you want to query mainnet data and you don't want to manage the infra, you can use Google BigQuery cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/…. But if you prefer self-hosted solution, you can try looking at ETHQL here github.com/ConsenSys/ethql.
– Zulhilmi Zainudin
Nov 12 at 22:36












I'm afraid ETHQL only allows querying of blocks, transactions and accounts but not internal storage of smart contract
– siva
Nov 21 at 10:50




I'm afraid ETHQL only allows querying of blocks, transactions and accounts but not internal storage of smart contract
– siva
Nov 21 at 10:50

















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