I'm also pleased that research is currently looking into Steem. That sounds like a market presence, doesn't it?

I think the advantage of Steem is that it is the first blockchain of a social type. Therefore, here you can consider the data for a longer period of time.

That sounds like a market presence, doesn't it?

Certainly. I was pleasantly surprised by this fact.

A separate database would probably be necessary

I was hoping that such a database existed, since such a database had existed before, probably before Hive.