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Cross-Plant Visibility in One SQL Query: Ending the Analytics Silo Problem

Cross-Plant Visibility in One SQL Query: Ending the Analytics Silo Problem

Learn why industrial analytics become siloed per facility, why consolidation layers fail at operational speed, and how manufacturing and logistics teams query all sites in one SQL statement.

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IoT Analytics at Scale: Architecture Guide for Industrial Data

IoT Analytics at Scale: Architecture Guide for Industrial Data

Build real-time industrial IoT analytics with Telegraf, CrateDB, and Grafana. SQL examples, architecture patterns, and proof from ALPLA, ABB, and TGW. Learn more.

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OEE Analytics on Live Data: How to Move from Nightly Exports to Real-Time Dashboards

OEE Analytics on Live Data: How to Move from Nightly Exports to Real-Time Dashboards

Learn why batch export architectures make OEE dashboards too slow for shift supervisors, and how manufacturing teams cut query times from 3 to 5 minutes to milliseconds with a real-time analytics database

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Migrating from InfluxDB to CrateDB: The Telegraf Output Plugin Swap

Migrating from InfluxDB to CrateDB: The Telegraf Output Plugin Swap

In this post, I am going to show you how to set up Telegraf and have it send metrics data to CrateDB.

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The InfluxDB Cardinality Problem: Why High-Cardinality Industrial Data Breaks It

The InfluxDB Cardinality Problem: Why High-Cardinality Industrial Data Breaks It

Learn why InfluxDB's TSM storage model hits a cardinality wall at industrial scale, and how CrateDB stores 900 sensor types in a single table without a series ceiling.

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New release: CrateDB 6.3

New release: CrateDB 6.3

CrateDB 6.3 enhances compatibility with SQL and PostgreSQL, unifies object store access, and improves resilience, making integration with third-party tools easier.

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The New Industrial Data Stack: Managing Billions of IoT Events in Real Time

The New Industrial Data Stack: Managing Billions of IoT Events in Real Time

Managing billions of IoT events requires a new data architecture. Discover how CrateDB enables real-time analytics for industrial systems.

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Why Industrial IoT Data Breaks Traditional Databases

Why Industrial IoT Data Breaks Traditional Databases

Discover why traditional databases struggle with industrial IoT data and how CrateDB's architecture addresses challenges like velocity, schema changes, and high cardinality.

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Beyond Time-Series: Why Modern IIoT Architectures Demand High-Cardinality Analytics, Flexible JSON, and Unified Observability

Beyond Time-Series: Why Modern IIoT Architectures Demand High-Cardinality Analytics, Flexible JSON, and Unified Observability

CrateDB enables high-cardinality IoT analytics, flexible JSON and search, edge-to-cloud IIoT, and unified machine-data observability in one distributed SQL engine.

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What Are the Best Databases for Real-Time Analytics on High-Velocity IoT and Sensor Data?

What Are the Best Databases for Real-Time Analytics on High-Velocity IoT and Sensor Data?

Discover the best databases for real-time analytics on high-velocity IoT and sensor data, focusing on ingestion, scalability, and AI-ready pipelines.

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