Welcome to CrateDB

CrateDB is a distributed SQL database designed for real-time analytics and search at scale. Whether you're working with time-series data, full-text search, or large volumes of structured and semi-structured data, CrateDB gives you the power of SQL, the scalability of NoSQL, and the flexibility of a modern data platform.

Why CrateDB

CrateDB was built for speed, scale, and simplicity:

• Real-time performance: Query millions of records per second with sub-second response times.

• AI/ML-ready: Store and serve data for modern AI pipelines.

• Search + SQL: Combine full-text search with rich SQL queries.

• Geospatial & time-series: Native support for IoT, sensor data, and location-based use cases.

• Horizontal scalability: Add nodes effortlessly to handle more data and users.

• Resilient and fault-tolerant: Built-in replication, backups and recovery.

What Can You Build?

CrateDB is used across industries to power:

• Real-time dashboards and analytics

• Large-scale IoT platforms

• Complex geospatial applications

• Embedded AI-driven insights

• Modern industrial data backends

Get Started

We've put together some helpful guides for you to setup your CrateDB instance quickly and easily. Enjoy the reading!