As a technical writer, I understand the importance of scalability and high availability in distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) to ensure the network can keep up with the ever-increasing transaction volumes. Hedera Hashgraph is a permissioned blockchain platform that has been designed to offer incredibly high throughput and scalability while ensuring a high level of robustness and distributed trust.
In this blog post, I want to discuss the various methods and strategies that Hedera Hashgraph leverages to achieve scalability and high availability for its network.
One of the key features of the Hedera Hashgraph platform is its flexible governance model. This allows the network to grow and evolve over time to ensure it can keep up with expanding transaction volumes.
The network consists of three partner types: Administrators, Validators, and Endorsers. Administrators are responsible for setting the network's parameters, while Validators are responsible for creating the blocks and verifying transactions. Endorsers are responsible for creating endorsements which are used to sign the blocks.
This model enables Hedera to scale quickly and efficiently by allowing the network to expand quickly by adding more administrators or validators when needed. This helps ensure that the network stays secure and can handle increased applications.
Another method that Hedera Hashgraph utilizes to achieve scalability is sharding. Sharding is used to split the network into smaller subnets in order to spread out the workload. This ensures that the network can scale quickly and efficiently.
The Hedera Hashgraph platform also utilizes a distributed hash table (DHT) for maintaining a consistent and efficient transaction ordering. DHTs are a type of data structure that is used to store and retrieve data and ensure that all nodes have the same view of the network.
The use of a DHT helps ensure that the network stays secure and can handle increased application throughput and transaction volumes.
Node synchronization is an important aspect of the Hedera Hashgraph platform. It helps to ensure that nodes stay in sync with the rest of the network, allowing new validators and endorsers to join without having to wait for lengthy sync times.
By utilizing this method, the network can quickly and easily scale up to handle more applications and transactions, without any issue.
Hedera Hashgraph ensures secure and unbiased consensus by introducing network distributed randomness (NDR). This is achieved by generating a source of randomness using a source that is external to the network. This ensures that the network cannot be manipulated by any single validator and that all decisions are made fairly and equally.
Scalability and high availability are important aspects of distributed ledger technologies, and Hedera Hashgraph leverages a variety of methods and strategies to ensure its platform remains secure and capable of handling increasing transaction volumes.
With its flexible governance model, DHT, Node Synchronization, and NDR, Hedera Hashgraph is able to scale quickly and offer a secure and reliable platform for applications to run on.