🛠️ [TASK] : Port OrbitDB to Rust, and include it as built in functionality in our IPFS integration crate.

[stevenj]

Summary

Investigate/Implement OrbitDB as a decentralized DB.

Description

We eventually need a Decentralized DB.
One approach is to solve each Decentralized Data storage challenge individually.
Another is to use a pre-existing Decentralized DB abstraction.
OrbitDB is one such: https://github.com/orbitdb/orbitdb/tree/main

Tasks:

• Investigate if OrbitDB is a usefull Decentralized DB for our use case.
• Port Orbit DB from the specification and JS implementation to rust, and include it as core functionality into our IPFS abstraction crate.
• Add Hermes API's to use the OrbitDB easily from within WASM.

We do not want to provide a HTTP Api, but a more traditional API that applications can use directly.

It would be useful to be able to be interoperable with the JS and Golang version if possible.

There is also a Golang and Python port which might be helpful to inspect during the porting process. But the JS port and specifications should be considered the definitive source of truth.
See:

• https://github.com/berty/go-orbit-db
• https://github.com/orbitdb/py-orbit-db-http-client