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BigchainDB Documentation
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Meet BigchainDB. The blockchain database.

It has some database characteristics and some blockchain `properties <properties.html>`_,
including decentralization, immutability and native support for assets.

At a high level, one can communicate with a BigchainDB network (set of nodes) using the BigchainDB HTTP API, or a wrapper for that API, such as the BigchainDB Python Driver. Each BigchainDB node runs BigchainDB Server and various other software. The `terminology page <terminology.html>`_ explains some of those terms in more detail.

More About BigchainDB
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   BigchainDB Docs Home <self>
   about-bigchaindb
   terminology
   properties
   basic-usage
   installation/index
   drivers/index
   query
   contributing/index
   korean/index