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GUN
Original author(s)Mark Nadal
Developer(s)ERA Inc
Initial release2014; 10 years ago (2014)
Repositorygithub.com/amark/gun
Written inJavaScript
TypeGraph database
LicenseMIT License, Apache 2.0, Zlib License
Websitegun.eco

GUN (Graph Universe Node) is an open source, offline-first, real-time, decentralized, graph database engine written in JavaScript for the web browser.[1][2][3]

The database is implemented as a peer-to-peer network distributed across browser-based "Client Peer" nodes and optional Node.js "Relay Peer" nodes. It employs multi-master replication with a custom conflict-free replicated datatype (CRDT).[4]

GUN is currently used in the decentralized version of the Internet Archive.[5][6]

External links[edit]

Category:Graph databases Category:Database engines Category:Free database management systems Category:Serverless database management systems Category:Peer-to-peer computing Category:Mesh networking Category:Public-domain software with source code

References[edit]

  1. ^ Smith, Noah (2019-07-21). "These technologists think the internet is broken. So they're building another one". NBC News.
  2. ^ Smith, Noah (2019-07-12). "Building a new Internet: The bold plan to decentralize the web". NBC News.
  3. ^ Lardinois, Frederic (2018-05-23). "GUN raises more than $1.5M for its decentralized database system". TechCrunch.
  4. ^ Jay Graber (2021-01-21). Ecosystem Review (Report). Bluesky. p. 9. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
  5. ^ Abrams, Lawrence (2018-08-07). "Archive.org Has Created a Decentralized or Dweb Version of Their Site". Bleeping Computer. Retrieved 2024-07-12. For these reasons, Archive.org is testing a decentralized version, or DWeb version, of their web site that allows their content to be delivered over peer-to-peer connections with different hosts sharing portions of or the same content. This decentralized version of Archive.org is running on the domain dweb.me or dweb.archive.org and uses a combination of HTTP and peer-to-peer protocols such as yjs, IPFS, WebTorrent, and GUN to deliver the content.
  6. ^ Brewster Kahle (2022-01-27). The Decentralized Web: An Introduction (Webinar). Metropolitan New York Library Council. Event occurs at 26:52 minutes in. Archived from the original on 2022-02-02. Retrieved 2024-07-12. We went and built at the Internet Archive a demo, a couple of years old now called dweb.archive.org. The idea is can we build the Internet Archive but decentralized and that was kind of an interesting approach. It tried to leverage things like WebTorrent, IPFS, GUN, some of the early technologies that try to build decentralized tech such that any particular piece of hardware or institution could go away yet you still have access to the resources.