CBCS: A Scalable Consortium Blockchain Architecture Based on World State Collaborative Storage

Abstract

In the big data environment, data are characterized by a large volume, various types, and rapid changes. The consortium blockchain applied in this environment faces the problem of excessive storage of the ledger, and the ledger handling different types of business needs to be isolated to ensure the ledger’s security. To this end, this paper proposes a scalable consortium blockchain architecture based on world state collaborative storage (CBCS). First, a business world state database update method is designed based on sparse Merkle multiproofs, where the collaborative storage of world state is realized under the premise of mutual isolation of the ledger between business domains. Then, a world state consistency verification method based on the rank B+ tree is designed to verify the consistency of the business world state in business domains by the checking sidechain, and a main-side chain cross-anchoring structure is designed to realize secure anchoring of the mainchain and the checking sidechain. Meanwhile, a blockchain transaction trusted tracing method based on two-level certification is developed to enable business nodes to obtain complete blockchain transactions. Finally, the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed mechanism to solve the storage scalability problem in the consortium blockchain are verified through experiments.