Eris Industries, a leading platform provider for enterprise blockchain applications, and BigchainDB, a scalable blockchain database, have announced a strategic alliance to enable a tighter integration of the Eris blockchain application platform with BigchainDB, to make it easier for enterprises to build scalable applications using smart contract and blockchain database technology.

BigchainDB, a product of ascribe GmbH, a Berlin-based startup, is a scalable, blockchain database capable of one million writes per second, petabytes of capacity, and rich querying. It was built as a result of seeing scalability as a fundamental barrier to wider adoption of blockchain technologies.

“BigchainDB fills a major gap in the blockchain space with a scalable blockchain database,” said Casey Kuhlman, CEO of Eris Industries. “We’re excited to extend the capability of the Eris platform and work closely with BigchainDB to accelerate the deployment of blockchain technology.”

The alliance will initially target to deploy the first-ever stack having both decentralized processing and a decentralized database:

• The decentralized processing includes Ethereum Virtual Machine using the Solidity smart contracts language powered eris:runtime application engine and the Tendermint consensus engine.
   
• The decentralized database is the BigchainDB database, with its high throughput, high capacity and built-in NoSQL querying. The Eris platform manages this stack to give enterprise-grade performance and developer support.

The partnership also allows for a more complete ecosystem on which to build blockchain powered applications.

“Eris Industries is a leading toolkit for building distributed applications, allowing blockchain technologies to play well together,” said Bruce Pon, CEO of BigchainDB. “BigchainDB in the Eris platform gives enterprises scalable blockchain database performance that has never been possible.”

Founded in 2014, Eris Industries has been recently in news for its partnership with French startup Ledger to improve security of critical workflows and protect its blockchain-based infrastructure. In addition, it has also entered into a partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). It successfully delivered a commercial paper prototype system for 40 of R3 CEV’s 43 member banks.