Use cases

Database Consolidation

CrateDB is an open source, multi-model and distributed database that offers high performance, scalability and flexibility. CrateDB simplifies your data infrastructure and helps you overcome the challenges of growing complexity and technical debt. It offers a single source of truth kept updated in near real-time that natively supports multiple data types - all in one place.

Real-time unified data repository

Maintain a single source of truth updated in real-time, eliminating the need for multiple databases per use case, simplifying complexity, and ensuring data consistency.

Reduced TCO

Streamline infrastructure management, reducing server count, software licenses, and operational complexities, resulting in cost savings.

Simplified management and maintenance

Experience simplified database management, reducing the need for specialized skills, training, and dedicated personnel.

Data synchronization

Streamline the integration of various data types and sources effortlessly within CrateDB, with no need for manual data synchronization. CrateDB ensures seamless consolidation and management of all data types within a unified environment.

Dynamic schema

Utilize CrateDB's dynamic schema to store various data types (tables, documents, time-series, geospatial data, binary objects, and vectors) within a singular technology, reducing the requirement for multiple databases catering to distinct use cases.

Native SQL

Effortlessly access and manipulate data using CrateDB's native SQL, making it easier to get started and integrate into your existing workflows and applications.

Support for AI/ML

Empower data applications with CrateDB's robust support for machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language applications.

High scalability and availability

Leverage CrateDB's distributed execution engine for high-volume read and write operations, ensuring high performance under significant loads. The shared-nothing architecture allows horizontal scalability and maintains high availability.

Flexible deployment options

Benefit from CrateDB's adaptability across diverse deployment options: Private or Public Cloud, On-Premises, or Edge. CrateDB also supports Hybrid scenarios out of the box.

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Software platform

The GolfNow division of the NBC Universal GolfChannel is trusted by 4 million registered golfers to search for golf courses that fit preference and budget. They use CrateDB to currently perform real-time queries of more than 300 million rows of data, hundreds of times per second.

"CrateDB was a better solution for our needs than any other SQL or NoSQL database we tried. It was easy to migrate code off of our legacy SQL database and onto CrateDB to immediately benefit from its data flexibility and scalable performance."

Sheriff Mohamed
Director of Architecture
GolfNow

Telco

VoIPstudio is an award-winning VoIP phone service. They use CrateDB to manage call detail records (CDRs). MySQL had been used successfully for several years, but due to increasingly poor performance it was replaced by CrateDB.

"After a successful and problem-free implementation it became clear to us that CrateDB was the solution we were looking for. We gained better performance and new possibilities for our customers. We are going to improve and extend our cloud system using CrateDB."

Services

ClearVoice provides content writing services and with an ecosystem of top writers. They use CrateDB to power their search index, which stores 20 million records and this is expected to grow to billions in the near future.

"I started looking at CrateDB and was impressed by the quality of the code. Switching from MySQL to CrateDB took a couple of days. It was very convenient to integrate CrateDB into our existing base even though it was written for a different database. The fact that CrateDB uses SQL lowers the barrier to entry when using distributed search. And on top of that, with CrateDB you can replace MongoDB and Elastisearch with one scalable package."

Jeff Nappi
Director of Engineering
ClearVoice

Retail

kooky is the first digital cup smart system by tracing and operating reusable food packaging. They were facing issues of simultaneously querying large volume of data from multiple heterogeneous databases and were thus limited to offer value added services in real-time to users dropping their packaging items into their machines. Thanks to CrateDB, kooky can now deliver those services by querying user history and loyalty points in real-time.

"With CrateDB it was extremely easy to have a single place that we could query through our entire system within milliseconds at any moment in time, and this was impossible before."

Dmytro Boguslavskyy
CTO & Co-Founder at kooky

Database consolidation refers to the process of combining multiple databases into a single, unified system. This involves taking data from various sources within an organization, cleaning it, and integrating it into one location. By consolidating databases, it simplifies data infrastructure, reduces complexity, and helps manage technical debt. CrateDB helps streamline your infrastructure and reduces the need for multiple databases, overcoming the challenges of growing complexity and technical debt.

Consolidating databases maintains a single source of truth updated in real-time, eliminating the need for multiple databases per use case and ensuring data consistency. It streamlines infrastructure management and reduces server count, software licenses, and operational complexities, leading to cost savings. CrateDB supports this by providing a unified system that natively supports multiple data types, thus reducing the requirement for multiple databases catering to distinct use cases.

ClearVoice, a content creation agency, streamlined its backend by switching from MySQL to CrateDB. This transition made scaling easier and significantly improved performance. Their aggregate query times were reduced from 20 minutes to milliseconds after the migration. Read more >

Combining data sources can be achieved manually by copying and inserting data from various sources into a new destination. For more structured and scalable approaches, data blending and the ETL (extract, transform, load) process are commonly used. ETL involves copying data from different sources, standardizing it, and loading it into a unified database. CrateDB simplifies this process by seamlessly integrating various data types and sources without the need for manual synchronization, ensuring efficient data consolidation and management within a single environment. Learn more about data import in CrateDB >

Database Consolidation

Real-time unified data repository

Reduced TCO

Simplified management and maintenance

Data synchronization

Dynamic schema

Native SQL

Support for AI/ML

High scalability and availability

Flexible deployment options

Transformative Effects of Real-Time AI

ClearVoice migrates from MySQL to CrateDB

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Introduction to CrateDB: Key Concepts, Architecture, and Live Demo

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How Kooky gets insights from large amounts of data with CrateDB

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