Crate Data

"Crate Data is a shared nothing, fully searchable, document oriented cluster datastore."

Crate Data...

is a document oriented data store.
has the ability to scale horizontally extremely well.
forms a cluster and handles replicas for you.
offers SQL to query and manage documents.
lets you specify a schema
- to define tables
- and data types.
offers support to manage BLOBs.

Getting Started

Installation

Download_ the latest release and unzip the archive.
Run bin/crate on unix or bin/crate.bat on Windows.
Start the crate shell by invoking bin/crash.
Start some more servers to form a cluster and relax.

Get Crate Data

Crate Data is not only easy to use, it's also easy to get. Use the one method which works best for you.

Additional to the binary distibution via tarball, there are also distributions for Ubuntu/Debian, CentOS/Scientific Linux (RPM), ArchLinux and Docker.

You can find installation instructions on our website and documentation.

Where to go from here?

That is certainly not all Crate Data offers to you. To take a look at the documentation visit https://crate.io/docs/.

Managing data

There are several different ways to manage data in Crate.

The admin interface
For for further clients in different languages see Crate Documentation.

Are you a Developer?

You can build Crate Data on your own with the latest version hosted on GitHub. To do so, please refer to DEVELOP.rst and CONTRIBUTING.rst for further information.

Help & Contact

Do you have any questions? Or suggestions? We would be very happy to help you. So, feel free to swing by our IRC channel #crate on Freenode. Or for further information and official contact please visit https://crate.io/.

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