Agreed, they seem to ignore literally everything that's going on the open source decentralized storage space.

Adding to the list: - BigchainDB (https://github.com/bigchaindb) a practical BFT blockchain DB (disclosure, I'm the co-author)

- SWARM

- OrbitDB

And also, it's a very very bad idea to have public storage - one (encrypted) PII entry illegal datum and it's over.

I really appreciate the approach that BigchainDB and Ocean Protocol take in addressing the extremely serious challenges around removing illegal content from a decentralized database. I don't remember exactly where I read/heard the details, but there is a talk Trent McConaghy gave where he describes the process of forking around a node where illegal content has been discovered and flagged via a takedown notice. I'll see if I can dig up the specific reference. The important takeaway for me, as I work on integrating decentralized and distributed database architecture into a platform for cancer drug discovery and the enrichment of user data through the incentive mechanisms within the decentralized databases that also have cryptographic tokens and utilize cryptographic primatives a la curation markets, is that hybrid solutions are starting to show promise in combining traditional centralized databases and decentralized ones that have novel token economics built it. I think BigchainDB and Ocean Protocol do a great job with this, as does OpenMined, and I'm interested to see where Cardstack goes with their approach. For me, it's not a binary set of options, rather about finding projects that are interoperable, and also take seriously their responsibilities to maintain compliance with the ever changing legal landscape surrounding data and rights management.

I am very interested in the area and will highly appreciate any additional links you could dig in.

I really would like to work on something like that but so far it's only enthusiasm and zero education. I am a pretty senior programmer in my eyes (16 years of official career, 25 years in total tinkering, started at 12-13 year old teenager) but sadly all that experience does not translate directly to areas like these.

It's a project for decentralizing existing big data databases... Not sure where you've set your expectations?

Ive set them at blockchain level, so. Meh. PostgreSQL can also be distributed with paxos.

To clarify: "distributed" and "decentralized" are different. "Distributed" spreads compute among many physical resources, but may still have a single entity controlling it. "Decentralized" has no single entity controlling it. Paxos distributes but does not decentralize.