What is Hyperledger and its different types
Published: 2021-05-30 07:26:52

Hyperledger is an umberlla project of open source Blockchain. It was started by Linux foundation in December of 2015. It was created to help cross-industry blockchain technologies.

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## **Types of Hyperledger**
### Hyperledger distributed ledger frameworks
There are six blockchain frameworks
#### [**Hyperledger Besu:**](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu)
 Hyperledger Besu is a Java Based Ethereum client formerly 
 known as Pantheon.It can run on the Ethereum public network 
 or on private permissioned networks,as well as test networks 
 such as Rinkeby, Ropsten, and Görli. It supports several 
 consensus algorithms , including Proof of work (Pow) ,
 Proof of authority(POA), Istanbul Byzantine fault tolerence 
 (IBFT),along with permissioning scheme design for users in 
 consortium environment . It implements enterprise etherum 
 alliance (EAA) specification. The EEA specification was 
 established to create standard interfaces for team building 
 applications.

#### [**Hyperledger Burrow:**](https://github.com/hyperledger/burrow)

 Hyperledger Burrow, which was contributed by Monax and Intel 
 initially, is a modular blockchain that was client-built to 
 the specification of the EVM. It supports both EVM and WASM 
 based smart contracts and uses Byzantine Fault Tolerance 
 consensus via the Tendermint algorithm.It supports advanced 
 event, database, and permissioning features.

#### [**Hyperledger Fabric**:](https://www.hyperledger.org/use/fabric)
 Hyperledger fabric was contributed by IBM, It is designed to 
 be a foundation for developing applications or solutions 
 with a modular architecture.It has modular and versatile 
 design which satisfies a broad range of industry use 
 cases.It offers scalable and secure platform that supports 
 private transactions and confidential contracts. It allows 
 for plug-and-play components, such as consensus and 
 membership services, and leverages containers to host 
 smart contracts, also called chaincodes, that comprise the 
 application logic of the system

#### [**Hyperledger Indy :**](https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node#about-indy-node)

 Contributed by the Sovrin Foundation, Indy is a Hyperledger 
 project made to support decentralized and self-sovereign 
 identity on distributed ledgers.It provides tools,libraries, 
 and reusable components for providing digital identities 
 rooted on blockchains or other distributed ledgers. Indy 
 is interoperable with other blockchains or can be use 
 standalone powering the decentralization of identity.

#### [**Hyperledger Iroha :**](https://www.hyperledger.org/use/iroha)
 Iroha is a straightforward distributed ledger technology 
 (DLT), inspired by the Japanese Kaizen principle — 
eliminate excessiveness (muri). It is designed for mobile 
and IoT development projects, is based on Hyperledger Fabric 
and was contributed by Soramitsu, Hitachi, NTT Data, and Colu. 
Iroha is *Crash Fault Tolerant* and has its own consensus 
algorithm — [YAC](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.00554.pdf)

#### [**Hyperledger Sawooth :**](https://www.hyperledger.org/use/sawtooth)
 Sawtooth was contributed by Intel . It offers a flexible and 
 modular architecture separates the core system from the 
 application domain, so smart contracts can specify the 
 business rules for applications without needing to know the 
 underlying design of the core system. It has support for 
 both permissioned and permissionless deployments and 
 recognition of diverse requirements. Sawtooth is designed 
 for versatility.