PostgreSQL Now a Trillian Storage Backend for Certificate Transparency Logs
2025-01-07
Trillian, the open-source Certificate Transparency (CT) log system, now supports PostgreSQL as a storage backend, thanks to a significant contribution from Sectigo. Driven by a previous MariaDB failure due to disk space exhaustion, Sectigo chose PostgreSQL for its enhanced reliability and data integrity, leveraging PostgreSQL's Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) and ACID properties. This benefits not only the CT ecosystem but also other Trillian-based transparency logs. Trillian v1.7.0 includes this support, currently in Alpha.
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