Zenbase 🎍

Welcome to Zenbase, the all encompassing database. It's a secure home for your data that lives in the cloud.

About Zenbase

Zenbase is:

Decentralized, peer to peer
Fault tolerant
Offline first
Private
Realtime
Cross platform. It runs on browsers, and mobile devices. (Servers coming soon!)
Auth ready. Decentralized authentication is built in
Graph database
Persistent
Easy to use

HOW???

That was a long list of super awesome features. Basically, Zenbase combines two awesome technologies: GunDB and Sia SkynetDB. GunDB is a Graph database based on WebRTC. Sia SkynetDB is a decentralized Key/Value pair database on a decentralized storage layer.

GunDB offers a flexible database, but lacks decentralized persistence. Centralized relays like S3 or a server are used to persist your data when WebRTC fails.

Sia SkynetDB has decentralized persistence, but lacks most of the features you'd probably want in a database (like relationships and queries).

Zenbase bridges these with a storage adapter for GunDB that persists data to Skynet.

Why Should I Care

It's free / cheaper than you're currently paying for your database. As of November 2020, Sia SkynetDB storage is free. It's unclear when/if that will change but you can expect that it will be cheap if payment is required. Storage on the Sia network currently costs:

3.02 dollars a month per terabyte for storage
0.62 dollars a terabyte for upload bandwidth
1.06 dollars a terabyte for download bandwidth

Source

Even assuming higher storage costs for higher duplication / better web availability, you're looking at cents for a 10gb database. Should payment be required, we intend to host a payment gateway to allow you to pay for your Zenbase easily with your credit card

It's always available. Even the biggest centralized services like AWS have down time. There is good reason to expect that Zenbase won't. Peer devices will each serve as their own database server making your service more available the more people use it. Even if there are no peers, Sia SkynetDB will always be available. There is another 10-30 redundancy on Skynet data, ensuring your data is always close by
It's cross platform. You don't need a server to run it so that's one less thing to set up and one less thing to pay for.
It's realtime and fault tolerant. Need I say more? Pinging your database for updates sucks
It's open source! 😁

Getting Started (v2.1.x)

Version 2.1.x removes Skynetjs from being bundled with Zenbase. Skynet is providing their own client side bundle. You now need to import both Gun and Skynet before Zenbase. I've also tested it and it works with NodeJS as well

The Interactive tutorial has been updated: https://starboard.gg/nb/nl2QbJ2

<html>
<head>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gun/gun.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gun/lib/radix.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gun/lib/radisk.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gun/lib/store.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gun/lib/rindexed.js"></script>
<script src="https://skynet-js.hns.siasky.net/4.0-beta/index.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/zenbase/src/index.js"></script>
<script>
let hello_world = ""

// Initialize gun.
// [localStorage] We are turning localStorage to false for testing purposes. Generally, you'd want that to be true
// [secret] Secret should be something long and secure. Your data will be saved to Skynet using that secret
// [portal] Skynet portal you'd like to use. Use a portal you trust or run your own. They could potentially manipulate your data (although I don't see why) 
// [debug] Show debug output
// [until] Change the batch time of Gun so that it doesn't attempt to write to storage too quickly
window.gun = new Gun({
    localStorage: false,
    secret: "YOUR_SECRET_HERE",
    portal: "https://siasky.net",
    debug: false,
    until: 2*1000
})

// Put data into gun. This will store in memory, then localStorage (disabled), then Skynet
gun.get('hello').put({ name: "world" });
// Get data into gun. This will pull from memory, then localStorage (disabled), then Skynet
gun.get('hello').on(data => { 
  hello_world = data['name']
	alert("hello: " + hello_world)
})
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Getting Started (Old)

Interactive tutorial here: https://starboard.gg/nb/nl2QbJ2

<html>
<head>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gun/gun.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gun/lib/radix.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gun/lib/radisk.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gun/lib/store.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gun/lib/rindexed.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/zenbase/dist/main.js"></script>
<script>
let hello_world = ""

// Initialize gun.
// [localStorage] We are turning localStorage to false for testing purposes. Generally, you'd want that to be true
// [secret] Secret should be something long and secure. Your data will be saved to Skynet using that secret
// [portal] Skynet portal you'd like to use. Use a portal you trust or run your own. They could potentially manipulate your data (although I don't see why) 
// [debug] Show debug output
// [until] Change the batch time of Gun so that it doesn't attempt to write to storage too quickly
window.gun = new Gun({
    localStorage: false,
    secret: "YOUR_SECRET_HERE",
    portal: "https://siasky.net",
    debug: false,
    until: 2*1000
})

// Put data into gun. This will store in memory, then localStorage (disabled), then Skynet
gun.get('hello').put({ name: "world" });
// Get data into gun. This will pull from memory, then localStorage (disabled), then Skynet
gun.get('hello').on(data => { 
  hello_world = data['name']
	alert("hello: " + hello_world)
})
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Donators (In order of contribution)

🏆 aaronfye
🥈 griffgreen
🥉 bit-7
🎖 julietea
🎖 slayerizedkoala
🎖 prometheusminer
🎖 caipeng2006
🎖 yaobr
🎖 traviagio
🎖 luxebeng

... and more

Credits

GunDB
Sia SkynetDB

More about the project

https://www.indiehackers.com/product/zenbase

Fluffy9/Zenbase