In a traditional database structure, there is often the concept of master and slave nodes to help distribute and scale data. In the master-less approach, any node can be the master, which is intended to enable a faster, more scalable approach. As part of Crate, Lutz and his team have also built a distributed SQL query engine that allows for quick searches and data retrieval.
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