> Each entry contains a bunch of IPFS address pointers - to the last entry on that "database", to any extra entries you found out about, and to a bunch of previous entries (just to speed up reading)

How bad is the latency to read the entire database state? Even git can become pretty slow fetching and processing objects on large repos, and all of those refs are local after the initial fetch.

Seems like with the additional latency on IPFS, resolving the entire DB state (for snapshotting it or otherwise backing it up, for instance) would be unusably slow for anything even somewhat large, no?