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Private Blockchains Still Can’t Compete With Databases, Research Shows
Why are databases still dramatically faster than blockchains? Research from BLOCKBENCH shows the gap is not due to poor engineering, but to fundamentally different design assumptions. Databases optimize for efficiency under trust, while blockchains trade speed for consensus, replication, and Byzantine fault tolerance.