Ripple & # 39; s Rippled Version 0.90 Release & # 39; History Sharding & # 39; to manage XRP Ledger data and reduce expenses

In a blog post published by Ripple on October 31st, the company explains that it has been introduced sharding of history. The company explains that Rippled servers operate and test data on a blockchain. It is always important that the historical data of XRP Ledger remain readily available to all participants.

Every single rippled server shares the responsibility of storing part of this data. However, sometimes it is not easy to store the whole information. According to Ripple, the space required to store the complete XRP Ledger history is over 8 terabytes, a very important sum.

With the history sharding feature enabled in Ruched version 0.90.0 solves this problem by distributing the history in several segments known as fragments. Each of these fragments has all the data for a specific range of ledger. With this implementation of sharding, individual rippled servers are able to contribute to storing historical data without having to store all the history.

It is important to remember that a shard shop does not replace an archive of accounting books. However, it helps the network to implement a reliable path to the history of the distributed registry using the Ledger XRP network. This means that the servers are able to confirm the data they agree to keep.

In the blog post, Ripple explains how the chronology subdivision works:

"Because servers that are configured with history sharding randomly select the archived fragments, the complete history of all closed master books is stored in a normal distribution curve, increasing the likelihood that the Ledger XRP network will keep the history evenly . "

Those who use ruffled version 0.90.0 You can use the -validateShards command to verify that the store data is valid and consistent with the network history. In this way, you can verify that the objects stored for each ledger stored in each fragment are valid and consistent with this network.

Users who are interested in learning more History Sharding can do it here: https://developers.ripple.com/history-sharding.html.