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  A selection of research papers that relate to local-first software and
  distributed databases.
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# Literature

ElectricSQL builds on decades of research into distributed database technology. Some of which was authored by [our team and advisors](/about/team).

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## Research papers

This page lists a non-exhaustive selection of papers that chart the development of some of the concepts and algorithms that ElectricSQL and [other systems](./alternatives) are based on.