bigchaindb/ROADMAP.md

BigchainDB Roadmap

See also:

• Milestones (i.e. issues to be closed before various releases)
• Open issues and open pull requests

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

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