"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.

• 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.

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.

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

There are several different ways to manage data in Crate.

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

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.

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/.