Developer(s) | Crate.io, Inc. |
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Initial release | April 15, 2013 [1] |
Stable release | 5.8.1 / August 5, 2024 [2] |
Repository | https://github.com/crate/crate |
Written in | Java |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Multi-model database Time series database |
License | Apache License 2.0 |
Website | cratedb |
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.
The CrateDB project was started by Christian Lutz, Bernd Dorn, and Jodok Batlogg [3] in Dornbin, Austria as an open source, clustered database purposedly built for fast text search and analytics. [4]
The company, now called Crate.io, raised its first round of financing in April 2014. [5] In June that year, CrateDB won the judge's choice award at the GigaOm Structure Launchpad competition. [6] In October, CrateDB won the TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in London. [7]
Crate.io closed a $4M founding round in March 2016. [8] In December 2016, CrateDB 1.0 was released having more than one million downloads. [9] [10]
CrateDB 2.0, the first Enterprise Edition of CrateDB, was released in May 2017 [11] [12] [13] after a $2.5M round from Dawn Capital, Draper Esprit, Speedinvest, and Sunstone Capital. [14] In June 2021 Crate.io announced another $10M funding round. [15] [16]
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