Blockchain for Enterprise comparison & reviews

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Pros
  • + Can support effective private networks
  • + Built for enterprise implementations
  • + Strong, professional backing of contributors
  • + Highest number of existing Enterprise use cases than other platforms
  • + Supports IoT and hardware to expand solution set
  • + Significant high profile support
  • + Large development community
  • + Quick to develop applications on
  • + Wide array of use cases
Cons
  • - Only centralized aspect is the Certificate Authority (CA) who issues certificates to eligible parties
  • - Support dependent on IBM’s help centre
  • - Still relatively young in development
  • - Codebase was just released open-source
  • - Still risky as main net is just releasing
  • - Two coin ecosystem and consensus algorithm still a risk as it is untested long-term.
  • - Public blockchain creates security concerns
  • - Uses cryptocurrency as fuel for transactions
  • - Forks can cause complications
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Overview
Modular blockchain platform architecture allowing plug-and-play implementations of various functions. Hosts any mainstream language for smart contract development.
VeChains vision is to build a trust-free and distributed business ecosystem that enables transparent information flow, high speed value transfer and efficient collaboration.
Generic, open-source,  blockchain based distributed computing platform for applications to be built upon.
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  Crypto Assets  
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Cryptocurrency
None
VeChain Token (VET) and VeThor Tokens (VTHO)
Ether (ETH)
  Logic  
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Smart Contract Functionality
Yes
Yes
Yes
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  Providers  
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% Providers with experience
0.93
N/A
0.93
  Community  
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Size of Developer Team
Large
Large
Large
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Support Team / Community
Large. IBM has a direct support line.
Large
Large
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Partnerships / Alliances / Size
200+
Large
EEA - 150+ companies
  Updates  
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Frequency of Updates
Quarterly
Frequent
High
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Future Planned Work
V1.2
Main Net Rollout
v3.5
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  General  
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Maturity
First release: July 2017


Token First Available: 2015
First IoT PoC: 2016
Mainnet: June 30 2018
Live first in July 2015 (first public blockchain)

First stable release March 2016
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Governance
Linux Foundation - Hyperledger Project Contributors
VeChain Foundation. Multi tiered involving a Steering Board, Advisory Board and a number of committes comprised by the public, and investors in the network.
Ethereum Developers
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Enterprise Focus
Strong Focus
Core Focus
Moderate Focus. Through forks, Quorum and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
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Production Ready
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Website
Link
Link
Link
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  Security  
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Security model
Membership Service Provider - pluggable interface that supports customizable credential architectures and certificate authorities

Concrete identity format
User credential validation
User credential revocation
Signature generation and verification
"Block Security Protocol" (BSP)
No data encryption or channel partition and is public.

Merkle Patricia Trie Data structure
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Permissions
Consortium

Permissioned, private network.
Permissioned Aspects
Permissionless
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Privacy
Private Channels
Yes
Limited (zk-SNARKs, Ring signatures)
  Algorithms  
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Consensus
Multiple options:

Pluggable Framework
No-op (no consensus)
PBFT
Proof of Authority
PoW & PoS
  Efficiency  
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Transaction Time
Varies
No data
Moderate
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Block Confirmation Time
Varies
Fast
~12 blocks
  Development  
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Proprietary Codebase
Open Source
Open source with proprietary applications
Open Source
  General  
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Blockchain / DLT type
Federated / Consortium, Permissioned Network
Public
Public with Private Forks
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Modularity
Modular Architecture is a core focus of Platform
Yes
Generic, with DApp and Smart Contract support for wider applications
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Scalability
1000 TPS capacity for now. Developed with scaling in mind. Provides flexibility in size and throughput depending on the implementation.

A Performance and Scalability Workgroup exists within the community to discuss, research, and identify key use cases and metrics for all blockchains.
50 - 10,000 TPS
limited by PoW

currently supports a maximum of 15 TPS
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Storage Capacity
500 transactions per block
Depends on implementation
Varies
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  Utilities  
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Energy Consumption
Varies
Medium
Low
  Change Management  
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Ease of Integration in Legacy Systems
Varies
Easy
Hard
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Difficulty to Use
Low-Moderate
Easy
Moderate
  Maintenance  
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Required ongoing Support
Yes
Low
Yes
  Pricing  
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Cost to Use
Free
Varies
Low
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  Licensing  
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Licensing
Apache 2.0
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
Varous licenses for different parts of code
  industry focus  
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Industry
Industry Agnostic
Cross-industry
  Developers  
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Development Environment (Languages/SDKs)
Golang, Java, NodeJS, Python
GoLang, C, Solidity, JavaScript, Java, TypeScript
Golang, C++, Rust, Python, Solidity
  Third Party Support  
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API Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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  Engagements  
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% share of engagements
0.12
N/A
0.52
  Uses  
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Number of Use Cases / Implementations
Large
Large
Large
  Industry Focus  
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Retail
Yes
Yes
No
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Finance
Yes
Yes
No
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Logistics
Yes
Yes
No
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Health Care
Yes
Yes
No
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Government
Yes
Yes
No
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Agriculture
Yes
Yes
No
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Entertainment
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Automotive
Yes
Yes
No

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  • IBM
  • VeChain Foundation
  • Ethereum Foundation
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