# BigchainDB Roadmap

See also:

* [Milestones](https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb/milestones) (i.e. issues to be closed before various releases)
* [Open issues](https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb/issues) and [open pull requests](https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb/pulls)

## BigchainDB Protocols
* Validation of other nodes
* Fault tolerance
* Permissions framework
* Protocol audits including security audits

## HTTP Client-Server API
* Validate the structure of the transaction
* Return the correct error code if something goes wrong
* Add an endpoint to query unspents for a given public key
* More endpoints
* See [the relevant open issues](https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Arest-api)

## Implementation/Code
* Node validation framework (inspect and agree or not with what the other nodes are doing)
* Open public testing cluster (for people to try out a BigchainDB cluster and to test client software)
* Federation management tools
* More tools for benchmarking a cluster
* Descriptions and results of more benchmarking tests
* AWS image and other easy deployment options
* Drivers/SDKs for more client-side languages (e.g. JavaScript, Ruby, Java)
* ORM to better-decouple BigchainDB from its data store (will make it easy to try other databases)
* Code audits including security audits

## Other/Future
* Byzantine fault tolerance
* Better support for smart contract frameworks