phorbas v0.1.0

PHORBAS

This repo will eventually be a composite of PHORBAS Opaque, Store, and HAMT. Until then, see the individual projects:

• PHORBAS Opaque handles the principle of Hashed, Opaque, and Addressable.
• PHORBAS Store handles the principles of Persistent, Binary key/content, Addressable, and Store.

• PHORBAS HAMT handles the principle of Replicable.

  PHORBAS Opaque: https://github.com/phorbas/js-phorbas-opaque

  PHORBAS Store: https://github.com/phorbas/js-phorbas-store

  PHORBAS HAMT: https://github.com/phorbas/js-phorbas-hamt

About PHORBAS

The PHORBAS project implements a persistent binary data storage scheme that accomodates opaque (encrypted) information. It is inspired by binary content addressable data storage, replication features of CouchDB, the opaque data storage of Tahoe-LAFS, the eventual consistency of CRDTs, and persistent Hash array mapped trie data structures.

Phorbas appears in in Greek mythology and is connected to "giving pasture" -- in this case, safe pasture to for data storage.

P - Persistent
H - Hashed
O - Opaque
R - Replicable
B - Binary key/content
A - Addressable
S - Store

Due to the opaque nature of the data storage, the storage is not queryable like a database. It is similar to IPFS with a less ambitious goal of being a pratical data storage scheme for data for embedding into other projects.

License

2-Clause BSD