OrbitDb vs IPFS

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Hi folks,

Iā€™m just getting started with IPFS and keen to understand best way to get an application up and running.

Should I use a more direct Js-ipfs implementation or pursue something like OrbitDb that provides off the shelf schemas?

To be more specific Iā€™m building a simple application that records user balances and transactions in the DB.

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OrbitDB uses IPFS, and is a database, while IPFS is basically a ā€œstorage and content distribution engineā€ . In your case, I would probably just go for OrbitDB. You could in theory just store user balances and transactions straight on IPFS, but OrbitDB will probably make your life easier.

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Thanks a ton - that helps!