CrateDB

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CrateDB
Developer(s) Crate.io, Inc.
Initial releaseApril 15, 2013;11 years ago (2013-04-15) [1]
Stable release
5.8.1 / August 5, 2024;17 days ago (2024-08-05) [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.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 [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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