Medusa: Blockchain Powered Log Storage System
This work addresses log storage for internet companies, but it is incremental as it applies an existing blockchain technology to a specific domain.
The authors tackled the problem of storing web logs by designing a blockchain-based storage system using HyperLedger, which offers higher throughput and lower latency compared to other blockchain systems, making it suitable for enterprise applications.
Blockchain is one of the most heavily invested technologies in recent years. Due to its tamper-proof and decentralization properties, blockchain has become an ideal utility for data storage that is applicable in many real world industrial scenarios. One important scenario is web log, which is treated as sources of technical significance and commercial revenues in major internet companies. In this paper, we illustrate our design of a web log storage system based on HyperLedger. HyperLedger yields higher throughput and lower latency compared with other blockchain systems. Alongside its efficiency advantages, HyperLeger is a permissioned blockchain, which is an ideal fit for enterprise software design scenario.