Performance Evaluation of the Quorum Blockchain Platform

Quorum is a permissioned blockchain platform built from the Ethereum codebase with adaptations to make it a permissioned consortium platform. It is one of the key contenders in the permissioned ledger space. Quorum supports confidentiality and privacy of smart contracts and transactions, and crash a...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Baliga, Arati, Subhod, I, Kamat, Pandurang, Chatterjee, Siddhartha
Format Paper Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 19.07.2018
Subjects
Algorithms
Blockchain
Computer Science - Cryptography and Security
Computer Science - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Computer Science - Performance
Consortia
Cryptography
Fault tolerance
Performance evaluation
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Summary:Quorum is a permissioned blockchain platform built from the Ethereum codebase with adaptations to make it a permissioned consortium platform. It is one of the key contenders in the permissioned ledger space. Quorum supports confidentiality and privacy of smart contracts and transactions, and crash and Byzantine fault tolerant consensus algorithms. In this paper, we characterize the performance features of Quorum. We study the throughput and latency characteristics of Quorum with different workloads and consensus algorithms that it supports. Through a suite of micro-benchmarks, we explore how certain transaction and smart contract parameters can affect transaction latencies.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1809.03421