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These archetypes can be found across different industries, such as trading, logistics, banking & insurance and Telecoms."),Object(n.b)("p",null,"As a common denominator your solution requires traits such as secure & encrypted channels and data-storage, trusted authentication, strict authorization, the participation of different partners & peers, ",Object(n.b)("a",r({parentName:"p"},{href:"https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/geodatabases/understanding-distributed-data.htm"}),"geo-distributed connectivity"),", transparent audit, immutability, and other ",Object(n.b)("a",r({parentName:"p"},{href:"https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/distributed-ledgers.asp"}),"ledger-based features"),"."),Object(n.b)("p",null,Object(n.b)("img",r({parentName:"p"},{src:"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E12AQEpHjpmhbjD8g/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0?e=1583971200&v=beta&t=tOqkr6sbC81c9Gv2ish8TSM50zvD_WEz1kLUwejN_hI",alt:"Product Timeline Blockchain",title:"Product Timeline Blockchain"}))),Object(n.b)("p",null,"Such applications seem awfully similar to how you would have executed your project without the use of Blockchain, simply by modelling your solution with a Database (and probably a relational DB) and a series of ETL pipelines layered on top of your DB. 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Yet, what you are creating is a ",Object(n.b)("a",r({parentName:"p"},{href:"https://searchoracle.techtarget.com/definition/distributed-database"}),"network"),"."),Object(n.b)("p",null,"As it is often the case, when you are modelling departments, partners, users, clients and transactions what you are actually doing is re-inventing the wheel to implement the authentication, authorisation, auditability, distribution & sharding and data consistency."),Object(n.b)("p",null,"Understanding this parallelism, enables you to easily model your solution with a network archetype; including Directory Access registries, Certificate Authorities, distributed logs (ledgers) and micro services to expose your data."),Object(n.b)("p",null,Object(n.b)("img",r({parentName:"p"},{src:"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E12AQHbn5PjCaJFYw/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0?e=1583971200&v=beta&t=7xcwJpE5cAL0a9V1XDGRyZW68fCr6oohdFcquqL9g84",alt:"Hyperledger Network",title:"Hyperledger Network"}))),Object(n.b)("p",null,"As a key example, ",Object(n.b)("a",r({parentName:"p"},{href:"https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.4/architecture.html"}),"Hyperledger Fabric")," is a DLT platform that exposes these components out of the box. 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