CrateDB

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CrateDB
Developer(s) Crate.io, Inc.
Stable release
5.4.0 / 11.07.2023
Repository https://github.com/crate/crate
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Data Store
License Apache License 2.0
Website cratedb.com

CrateDB is a distributed SQL database management system that integrates a fully searchable document-oriented data store. It is open-source, written in Java, based on a shared-nothing architecture, and designed for high scalability. CrateDB includes components from Trino, Lucene, Elasticsearch and Netty.

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History

The CrateDB project was started by Christian Lutz, Bernd Dorn, and Jodok Batlogg, [1] an open source contributor and creator who has contributed to the Open Source Initiative Vorarlberg [2] while at Lovely Systems in Dornbirn. The software is an open source, clustered database used for fast text search and analytics. [3]

The company, now called Crate.io, raised its first round of financing in April 2014. [4] In June that year, Crate.io won the judge's choice award at the GigaOm Structure Launchpad competition. [5] In October, Crate.io won the TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in London. [6]

Crate.io closed a $4M founding round in March 2016. [7] In December, CrateDB 1.0 was released having more than one million downloads. [8] [9]

CrateDB 2.0, the first Enterprise Edition of CrateDB, was released in May 2017 [10] [11] [12] after a $2.5M round from Dawn Capital, Draper Esprit, Speedinvest, and Sunstone Capital. [13] In June 2021 Crate.io announced another $10M funding round. [14] [15]

Since March 2023, Crate.io is led by Lars Färnström. [16]

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References

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  3. ↑ "CrateDB packs NoSQL flexibility, SQL familiarity" InfoWorld. Dec. 19, 2016
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  10. ↑ Yegulalp, Serdar (2017-05-16). "CrateDB 2.0 Enterprise stresses security and monitoring—and open source". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
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