Comparing Swarm to StorJ, Maidsafe, IPFS, ERIS

mgbtcfv

I am confused with all these distributed storage protocols. How does Swarm differ from all the others? Is one better than the other? I heard IPFS is a transport layer - does it mean it is quite different from Swarm?

ILethereum

Good question.

CarlWillhelm

would like to know that too

21xhipster

IPFS is just a protocol like http. It is unmotivated (don't have tokens).
Eris is permissioned blockchain thing and use IPFS underneath.
Storj, SAFE Network (MaidSafe is just a team like Eth\Dev), Sia and Filecoin are motivated storage networks with different underlying protocols and design decisions.
The most interesting thing that I don't know nothing about Swarm. Do you?

hangabers

Swarm is an organizational idea. A philosophical structure.
Both Maid safe and Ethereum are within the realm of what swarm is.

Maid Safe is a decentralized trustless platform that can reach consensus without everyone needing to have a copy of the lager.

If Ethereum is a swarm federation, then MaidSafe is swarm nation of swarm tribes.

In other words, a federated network of mini independent consensus teams decide on their own, but they are limited in what they can do based on the decisions made around them.

Ethereum a singular swarm of activity where people organize themselves, but consensus is reached by everyone.

That relationship model of course.

Technically speaking they are very different and similar.

Hopefully that helps a little.

PM me if there is further confusion.

intrepid

If anyone can also include "enigma" @hangabers http://enigma.media.mit.edu into this I would be grateful. I'm very interested in these products however my technical language abilities is low, for me things seem to click when someone describes a use case as opposed to how it literally works. the comment above was like a paradigm shift for me, so thanks

hangabers

Enigma is another cryptographic decentralized platform, but where maidsafe is meant for storage at it's base, and ethereum for being a programable network, enigma is designed for encrypted computation at it's base. But remember, computation or storage could be built as a DAO Dapp on top of Ethereum. It's just a matter of what perspective you wish to take. A lot of people argue it all could built on top of Bitcoin using sidechains. If you would like some additional help direct message me.

nofish

Another similar project focused on dynamic, multi-user web pages: http://zeronet.io