Blockchain Data Indexing Lags Behind Surging Throughput
While blockchain networks now process tens of thousands of transactions per second, infrastructure for indexing and delivering that data to applications is struggling to keep up.
A few years ago, the blockchain industry debated how to increase network throughput. Today many chains can handle tens of thousands of operations per second, and some claim hundreds of thousands. However, simply writing data to the chain is only half the challenge.
The data must still be found, indexed, verified, and delivered to applications. In some cases, data generation speed now exceeds the capacity of existing infrastructure to process it. This bottleneck is reshaping the way blockchains evolve, as developers focus on solving the data indexing and retrieval problem.
Source: ForkLog