State of the art for querying large containers

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I started a response to this but as it is a bit of a tangent made it a separate topic:

Application of CRDTs to Solid

I don’t recall CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) being mentioned here before, and am interested to hear if people think they could be useful for Solid. I wrote the following in response to @NoelDeMartin’s post raising an issue with performance when an LDP container holds hundreds of documents. But I think CRDTs merit a topic of their own. An alternative which I think would be interesting to explore for Solid is local-first using CRDTs. It’s a bit like offline-first, but peer to peer…