dMessenger: identity, groups, sealed keys, governance and message lifetimes on a single GenosDB graph — no relays holding messages, no server in the data path, and a test suite that proves it
What an audit means when authorization lives on every device, how a closed-source engine can still be checked line by line, and why the best result of this run was a design that answered for itself.
PouchDB syncs beautifully — with a CouchDB server you deploy and pay for. What changes when the server is the thing you are trying to remove.
Automerge keeps the full history of every change — a real capability with a real invoice: memory, a 45 MB WebAssembly package, and a sync layer that has never left alpha.
Yjs merges edits brilliantly — but persistence, transport, identity and permissions live in separate packages, and two of them have not shipped a release since 2023.
What OrbitDB's IPFS foundation costs in practice, what its open issues say about the gaps it left, and how a database designed without that dependency handles the same problems.
