In actual case, the blockchain essentially has no querying abilities when compared to [[database|traditional database]] and with a doubling of [[Node (networking)|nodes]], network traffic quadruples with no improvement in throughput, latency, or capacity.<ref name=":2">{{cite arxivbook|last1=Raikwar|first1=Mayank|last2=Gligoroski|first2=Danilo|last3=Velinov|first3=Goran|date=2020-03-12|title=2020 Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS)|chapter=Trends in Development of Databases and Blockchain|pages=1177–182|classdoi=cs10.DC1109/SDS49854.2020.9143893|eprintarxiv=2003.05687|isbn=978-1-7281-7219-4}}</ref> To overcome these shortcomings, taking a [[database|traditional database]] and adding blockchain features to it sounds more feasible.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/blockchains-in-the-database-world-what-for-and-how/|title=How to use blockchain to build a database solution|last=Anadiotis|first=George|website=ZDNet|language=en|access-date=2020-03-27}}</ref> That's how the concept of Blockchain-based database came into existence which consists of multiple member clouds riding on two primary layers, the first one is ''Database Interface'' and the second one is the ''Blockchain Anchoring''.<ref name=":0" />
