BigchainDB Documentation

BigchainDB is a scalable blockchain database. That is, it’s a “big data” database with some blockchain characteristics added, including decentralization, immutability and native support for assets. You can read about the motivations, goals and high-level architecture in the BigchainDB whitepaper.

At a high level, one can communicate with a BigchainDB cluster (set of nodes) using the BigchainDB Client-Server HTTP API, or a wrapper for that API, such as the BigchainDB Python Driver. Each BigchainDB node runs BigchainDB Server and various other software. The terminology page explains some of those terms in more detail.

HTTP API Docs
Python Driver Docs
Command Line Transaction Tool
Server Docs
Server Quickstart