# Existing decentralized database projects

[The Future of Data: A Decentralized Graph Database](https://hackernoon.com/the-future-of-data-a-decentralized-graph-database-bbb668715bd1)
* [The graphen protocol](http://web.archive.org/web/20200109042606/http://graphenprotocol.com/Graphen_Protocol_WP.pdf)

[Interplanetary file system](interplanetary-file-system.md)

[Swarm](https://www.ethswarm.org/)
* [White paper](https://www.ethswarm.org/swarm-whitepaper.pdf)

[Dat protocol](https://www.datprotocol.com/)
* [White paper](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dat-ecosystem-archive/whitepaper/master/dat-paper.pdf)
* [How it works](https://web.archive.org/web/20211124153436/https://datprotocol.github.io/how-dat-works/)

[Comparison of decentralized file storage projects](https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/tip/Comparing-4-decentralized-data-storage-offerings)