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CrateDB is designed to handle your demanding analytics and search workloads with ease. Here you’ll find comprehensive resources including reference manuals, tutorials, example code, and more.

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CrateDB Cloud

Discover the fully managed, scalable SQL database designed for real-time search and analytics. It supports fast analytics applications with real-time indexing of time-series, JSON, vector, text, and geo data. Perform near real-time analytics on vast data sets with complex queries and streamline data management across multiple cloud providers.

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CrateDB Cloud

Reference Manual

Want to dive deep into CrateDB? Explore the comprehensive reference manual.

At the core of CrateDB Cloud sits CrateDB, the open-source, distributed, and scalable SQL database system designed for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data in real-time, even with complex queries.

Based on Lucene and inherited from Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, CrateDB supports time series, documents, and vectors, combining the simplicity of SQL with the scalability of a distributed architecture.

CrateDB Reference Manual

Client Libraries

Connect your applications to CrateDB and CrateDB Cloud, using database drivers, libraries, adapters, connectors, and dialects.

CrateDB supports both the HTTP protocol and the PostgreSQL wire protocol, which ensures that many clients that work with PostgreSQL, will also work with CrateDB. Through corresponding drivers, CrateDB is compatible with ODBC, JDBC, and other database API specifications.

CrateDB Client Drivers and Libraries