Fuente: WIPO "circular economy" Methods and systems described herein provide a distributed database configured to leverage the storage and processing capabilities of edge devices and a query language for efficiently querying the distributed database system. A database layer of an application stack can be distributed across the nodes of a network including the edge nodes such that vast amounts of data may be stored locally at these nodes to provide access to the data in response to a query. In such a distributed database environment, queries may be received and/or executed by edge distributed node points. According to techniques described herein, the entire network environment may appear as a seamless database, and an Edge Query Language may provide for resolution of the query.