Data Type Used by the Ledger Database

The ledger database uses the hash16 data type to store row-level hash digests or table-level hash digests, and uses the hash32 data type to store global hash digests or history table verification hashes.

Table 1 Hash type of the ledger database

The hash16 data type is used to store row-level or table-level hash digests in the ledger database. After obtaining the hash sequence of a 16-character hexadecimal string, the system invokes the hash16in function to convert the sequence into an unsigned 64-bit integer and stores the integer in a hash16 variable. For example:

Hexadecimal string: e697da2eaa3a775b; 64-bit unsigned integer: 16615989244166043483
Hexadecimal string: ffffffffffffffff; 64-bit unsigned integer: 18446744073709551615

The hash32 data type is used to store the global hash digest or history table verification hash in the ledger database. After obtaining the hash sequence of a 32-character hexadecimal string, the system invokes the hash32in function to convert the sequence to an array containing 16 unsigned integer elements. For example:

Hexadecimal string: 685847ed1fe38e18f6b0e2b18c00edee
Hash32 array: [104,88,71,237,31,227,142,24,246,176,226,177,140,0,237,238]