Databases have been a critical component in the development of applications, across all generations of the web. While the advent of databases started from a centralized design pattern, there have been several iterations of innovations over the past three decades. These new patterns address key pain points of centralized databases.

In this chapter, we will dive deep into a new generation of decentralized databases and filesystems based on innovative design patterns. Some of these design patterns inspire traditional applications to blend Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain technologies. We will observe different types of decentralized databases and understand how they help to perform better AI analysis alongside blockchains.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics...