What is PPIO and how is it different from IPFS, Storj and Sia?

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7 years ago

PPIO is a programmable decentralized storage and delivery network. It not only provides more robust and eﬃcient services than existing cloud-based storage platforms such as AWS S3 but also signiﬁcantly reduces the storage cost. At the same time, PPIO also oﬀers better data security and privacy protection. Storj is another project that has gone through years of development, but it remains in the testing phase. Some of the known issues of Storj are the lack of quick response from miners upon storage request and its transactions are settled once per month which is not friendly to the miners. BurstCoin utilizes Proof of Capacity (PoC) that does take storage capac-ity of the miners into account, but unfortunately, it is not enough to serve well for the storage requirements.

The emerging FileCoin project that is under development by Protocol Labs adds an incentive layer on top of Inter-planetary File System (IPFS), with the goal to build a storage infrastructure and protocol to replace HTTP protocol. For that purpose, its ﬁle index is made public to facilitate features like Web access, but it poses a challenge to preserving user privacy and data security in a storage network. Besides, some of its storage proofs are too complex and likely to hold the system back from running eﬃciently at a large scale.

It does borrow mature P2P system designs from proven applications such as BitTorrent, but it provides no good solution to handle complex network environments and does not oﬀer performance optimization within regional networks. Such deﬁciency in the design can lead to many real-world problems to the miners and ISPs. As Protocol Labs claims that ﬁles stored on IPFS are permanent and cannot be deleted, it runs the risks of legal battles against policies and regulations and makes its worldwide deployment much more diﬃcult.

PPIO white paper:https://github.com/PPIO/Whitepaper

PPIO Offical website: https://www.pp.io/