Hive (short for Hivemind) is an extension of sbds. While sbds is concerned about storing raw blockchain operations, hive focuses on caching the state.
Immediately useful to us is:
Hive will also contain data needed for the upcoming communities, but we need not concern ourselves with it at this time.
Source: https://github.com/steemit/hivemind
SteemData is providing sbds and hive services for free on a completely open basis (no signup required).
You can access the Hive MySQL database at:
mysql://steemit:[email protected]:3306/hive
I've decided to make MySQL a first-class citizen between services offered by SteemData, and as such I've re-deployed sbds and hive on a much more powerful i7/64gb/1tb-ssd server.
Syncing with remote steemd is a bit slow, and it will take a while to have all data.
As the number of SteemData apps and services grew, the website started getting a bit messy. I've re-organized it into logical sections.