Distributed and decentralized have specific meaning in the database space. Decentralized is like Bitcoin. No centralized servers or control. Distributed just me

Distributed and decentralized have specific meaning in the database space. Decentralized is like Bitcoin. No centralized servers or control. Distributed just means more than one server. The servers could even be located in the same rack or even on the same server in separate virtual machines and that would be distributed but not geographically distributed.