There is an old Chinese saying: A long road tests a horse's strength, and a long task proves a man's heart. This leads me to the following point: nothing is harder than building trust and the cost of building trust is extremely high, especially in the world of business. It is more difficult to build trust among enterprises than among people. That's where the SunlightDB blockchain database comes into play, offering a revolutionary solution for data sharing and overcoming the barriers of traditional trust models.

Real-World Trust Issues in Business

Let me tell you a quick personally experienced story without getting too technical. A few years ago, we were working together with a couple of interesting business partners. One was an automobile manufacturer, and the other is a hub supplier. The automobile manufacturer had found a lot of hubs with deficiencies. However, since the time had been too long, and there were many hub suppliers, they could not find which hub suppliers should be held accountable for the deficiencies. As a result, they wanted to make all hubs traceable in order to optimize their productivity. So the automobile manufacturer found the hub supplier and wanted him to open up his database. The hub supplier was very anxious and said, “How can I do this? Opening up my database is like me running naked in front of you and the company's commercial secrets are all revealed.

This is indeed the problem of the traditional "pull-model" data sharing commonly used by traditional databases. Owing to the lack of trust, it requires a lot of identity authentication work and consumes enterprises’ manpower and financial resources. And it highly likely will bring all kinds of problems to enterprises’ databases, such as data theft, tampering, or even the paralysis of the database!

In fact, data sharing among enterprises is not an issue. The key issue is trust among enterprises.

The SunlightDB Blockchain Database Solution

The SunlightDB blockchain database uses the "detrust" concept, which departs from the current trust model that delegates ownership and access control of the data to a centralized trusted authority. Instead, it empowers the users with data ownership, perfectly solving the trust issue among enterprises.

Take deposit and withdrawal transactions as an example. When you withdraw money from a bank counter, you need to carry out complex authentication procedures. However, when you deposit money, you do not need to verify the identity. Detrust is the most essential difference between the "pull-model" data sharing and the "push-model" data sharing and also is the core idea the SunlightDB blockchain database strives to establish for the realization of detrust.

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The Power of Detrust in Blockchain Technology

Traditional data sharing requires building trust in the first place. On the contrary, blockchain databases have the characteristics of detrust and transparency, which means we can get rid of all lengthy and costly trust-building processes. The speed of data sharing goes up, and the development cost goes down, along with other advantages. So, the production efficiency is greatly improved.

The Shift from Pull-Model to Push-Model Data Sharing

Technically speaking, the “pull mode” and “push-mode” data sharing are quite different. In essence, from the business level, push mode data sharing is the sublimation of the way people think and how databases work.

Traditional database systems operate by letting you get what you need from the database; on the other hand, blockchain database systems take an initiative to give what others need.

The Future of Databases: Big Data and SunlightDB

With the advent of the big data age, the demand for data sharing among enterprises becomes more and more critical. Since 2008, the database market has been growing exponentially. With incomplete statistics, only China’s domestic database market has exceeded hundreds of billions of RMB. With the advent of the big data era, the market order of future databases will become increasingly large, and user demands are increasingly diversified. The SunlightDB blockchain database can be applied flexibly according to the market environment and various usage scenarios. We believe that the SunlightDB blockchain database will be the direction of future database development.