Performance Analysis of Blockchain Technology using Inter Planetary File System (IPFS) database in comparison with Block chain database

Abstract

Blockchain, as the name suggest is a long chain of blocks which are connected using the hashed of the data which is stored in the previous blocks. In present scenario schools, colleges and universities are being forced towards the creation, maintenance, retrieval, safety and privacy of educational records. Challenge is not only to store and maintain the data but also ensures fast access of data to all the stakeholders. Blockchain based transcripts save the time and money and smart contracts help in the authentication via codes. But there are several limitations of blockchain database, When sharing blockchain data from a server to multiple clients, it is highly likely that multiple clients will need the same data. They are working on the same case and may be investigating the same wallet. Blockchain and IPFS based transcripts save the time and money and smart contracts help in the authentication. Transcripts are safeguarded by blockchain in the event of a server outage or natural disaster. This work analyses the performance of IPFS database that uses content based addressing and cryptographic hashes with other database. In this paper IPFS is compared with blockchain database. IPFS is hypermedia protocol that is both safe and easy to use. It uses the content based addressing with the merger of cryptographic hashes to work upon the distributed file system. This paper compares IPFS with Blockchain database upon the following factors like Size of files shared by nodes, Degree of linking through number of peers linked, Bandwidth used.