Master theses

Simulated Decentralized Social Media Playground

Promotors: Ruben Taelman

Main contact: Ruben Taelman

Problem

In recent years, decentralization of data on the Web has been a topic of interests due to recent problems related to privacy and censorship. However, decentralized data complicates the development of applications, since pieces of data needed by applications can be spread across tens or hundreds or servers. As such, query engines are being developed to abstract access to such data behind query algorithms.

To evaluate the performance of these query engines, a fictional social network-based benchmark has been developed, called SolidBench. Up until now, questions remain with respect to how developer-friendly these query engines are to interact with decentralized data.