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.

CrateDB

Developer(s)	Crate.io, Inc.
Initial release	April 15, 2013; 12 years ago (2013-04-15) [1]
Stable release	5.9.2 / October 30, 2024; 6 months ago (2024-10-30)[2]
Repository	https://github.com/crate/crate
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Multi-model database Time series database Vector database
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	cratedb.com

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]