tl;dr: You use this any time you want to have mutable data shared across a peer-to-peer network.
I wasn't there at the beginning but I believe the project came out of trying to achieve said mutable state within IPFS (which, for other readers is content-addressed and therefore append-only)
I wasn't there at the beginning but I believe the project came out of trying to achieve said mutable state within IPFS (which, for other readers is content-addressed and therefore append-only)
http://orbitdb.org lists all of our current users, the biggest one is Metamask by way of https://3box.io. https://tallylab.com is building with it for remote encrypted backup and shared tallies. https://github.com/dappkit/aviondb is a MongoDB-like interface for it.