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“Recently I'd been reading on the application of immutable databases for tracking changes in sensitive data, and for auditing purposes.”

Pretty sure he is referring to https://immudb.io.



there is also https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/ Thoses tech make blockchain obscolete for many uses.


Yes could be. We should point out that QLDB isn’t open source and only runs as an AWS service.


Isn't QLDB a blockchain tech? Albeit a real-world practical one.


It’s not a blockchain. It’s meant to be a ledger database so it works in a similar way to a Blockchain, same internal data structure, but without the distributed consensus concept.


So it is a blockchain, just not a distributed blockchain.

The idea of a blockchain for tamper detection, with external validation by regularly sending off a current state hash for signing, existed long before crypto currencies arrived with the distributed verification process.


It could be a blockchain, we don't know for sure


It is by the original definition. Though not by some of the recent redefinitions but as they are often due to marketing getting good of the dictionary...



Or Git. Or...

This is a common pattern now.




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