Upgrade Your Cluster to 0.55.x
Crate Version 0.55 introduces a lot of great features, fixes and changes. Some of these required making changes to our code base that require extra steps to upgrade your clusters than with previous Crate versions.
Crate 0.55, Our Biggest Release Yet?
Crate is regularly updated, so we don't normally write a blog post for each release, but our forthcoming 0.55 release is so chock-full of features that we felt it deserved something special.
Bulk Inserts with unnest
CrateDB 0.55 introduces support for unnesting. Unnest uses arrays to generate a transient table with each array representing a column.
How to Import from Custom Data Sources with a Plugin
Ingesting and handling large amounts of data with CrateDB is easy. Here's a best practice guide explaining some of the crucial aspects.
Crate.io at Software Engineering Daily
An interview with Jodok Batlogg from Crate.io by Jeff Meyerson on Software Engineering Daily.
A 1001 Node Crate Cluster with Microsoft Azure
A Blog post on how we created a 1001 node Crate cluster, designed to push Crate and Microsoft Azure to their limits.
PHP 7 Support
We are excited to announce that crate-pdo and its ORM Layer crate-dbal now support PHP 7.
Generated Columns in Crate 0.54.0
Announcing the support of generated columns in CrateDB 0.54.0. The idea behind generated columns is to have values computed from generation expressions
Improving on Joins
We've doubled the JOINs performance for almost all queries, and removed many of the previously existing restrictions.
CrateDB adds support for JOINs & Geo shapes at DockerCon 15
Today we've taken two huge steps forward in our journey by releasing support for table joins, and support for Geo Shapes in our newest testing release (0.53.0).