CrateDB is a distributed SQL

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that integrates a fully searchable document-oriented

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. It is

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, written in

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, based on a

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, and designed for high scalability. CrateDB includes components from Trino,

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and Netty.

History

The CrateDB project was started by Christian Lutz, Bernd Dorn, and Jodok Batlogg in Dornbin, Austria as an open source, clustered database purposedly built for fast text search and analytics."CrateDB packs NoSQL flexibility, SQL familiarity"
InfoWorld. Dec. 19, 2016 The company, now called Crate.io, raised its first round of financing in April 2014. In June that year, CrateDB won the judge's choice award at the GigaOm Structure Launchpad competition. In October, CrateDB won the TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in London. Crate.io closed a $4M founding round in March 2016. In December 2016, CrateDB 1.0 was released having more than one million downloads. CrateDB 2.0, the first Enterprise Edition of CrateDB, was released in May 2017 after a $2.5M round from Dawn Capital, Draper Esprit, Speedinvest, and Sunstone Capital. In June 2021 Crate.io announced another $10M funding round.

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External links

* {{official website, https://cratedb.com 2016 software Distributed data stores Document-oriented databases Free database management systems NewSQL Relational database management systems Software using the Apache license Time series software