First steps with CrateDB (Live)

This sections gives you some guidelines on how to get started quickly with CrateDB.

1. Create your first cluster

The fastest and easiest way to get started is by creating a free CrateDB Cloud cluster.

2. Follow your first step-by-step tutorial

Directly from the CrateDB Cloud UI, you can select and go through the interactive tutorials that best match your interests:

• Interested in full-text search? Explore a dataset from the Netflix Catalog. In this tutorial, learn how to use CrateDB Cloud’s full-text search capabilities to work with large datasets and manage a collection of Netflix titles.

• Working with JSON payloads? Analyze Marketing Data. In this tutorial, explore the dynamic OBJECT data type to store and query complex, nested, multi-structured data from various platforms. You’ll also discover how to use generated columns to parse and manage URLs for deeper insights.

• Exploring time-series data? Investigate Weather Data from multiple locations. In this tutorial, you’ll work with weather readings from CrateDB offices worldwide to learn how to efficiently store and analyze time-series datasets.

3. Take an advanced tutorial

• Analyze Device Readings with Metadata Integration In this tutorial, capture device metrics such as battery level, CPU usage, and memory, then enrich your time-series data with metadata (JSON, text) to enable more comprehensive analysis.

Congratulations! You’re now onboarded and ready to explore further. Check out the other sections in the menu to dive deeper into CrateDB’s capabilities.