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Real-time Analytics Database

CrateDB is an open source, multi-model and distributed database that offers high performance, scalability and flexibility. It can ingest, store, and analyze large amounts of data in milli-seconds to make data-driven decisions and respond to dynamic trends quickly.

Real-time query performance

Experience fast in-memory SQL query performance with CrateDB's parallel query processing and distributed columnar field caches. This feature enhances real-time analytics by optimizing query execution speed, ensuring swift data retrieval for immediate analysis and decision-making.

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Horizontal scalability

Seamlessly scale CrateDB to manage the continuous influx of massive data from diverse sources. CrateDB's ability to scale horizontally across multiple nodes facilitates uninterrupted operations, allowing you to expand resources effortlessly to accommodate growing data needs, ensuring consistent performance for real-time analytics.

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Distributed shared-nothing architecture

Leverage CrateDB's fully distributed query engine for instant responsiveness, enabling real-time insights from billions of records. Harness CrateDB's distributed architecture to handle data-intense workloads efficiently. Process, ingest, and enrich large volumes of diverse data sources in real time.
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Real-time indexing

Ensure immediate data availability for queries, enabling swift access crucial for real-time monitoring, accelerated decision-making, and enhancing operational efficiency.

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Fast data ingestion and processing

Ingest, store, and process millions of data points per second thanks to distributed processing, data partitioning, multithreaded design, and shared-nothing distributed architecture with masterless clustering.

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Built-in high availability

Ensure ultimate reliability and non-stop performance with automatic replication and self-healing. Instant availability of ingested data ensures immediate query access, delivering responses in milliseconds for intricate ad-hoc queries across vast datasets, ensuring real-time insights.

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Columnar storage for data aggregations

Utilize CrateDB's columnar storage to compute data aggregations on demand without downsampling or pre-aggregation. This feature streamlines analytics workflows by facilitating dynamic and immediate analysis of large datasets.
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Enabling the Real-Time, AI-Powered Future

Discover how CrateDB enables real-time AI solutions by unifying data, offering high performance, scalability, and flexibility. Harness the power of AI for instant decision-making.

Real-time monitoring for smart buildings

Learn how O-CELL real-time monitoring solution helps to reduce the environmental impact of infrastructures with CrateDB.

Real-time analytics for video streaming

Learn how Bitmovin improves the streaming experience with real-time analytics.

"Working with CrateDB brings positive outcomes. The ingestion and throughput have very good performance, with 1 million values/sec, the horizontal scalability where we can add as many nodes as we need and the automatic query distribution across the whole cluster."
Marko Sommarberg Lead, Digital Strategy and Business Development ABB Learn more
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"CrateDB is the only database that gives us the speed, scalability and ease of use to collect and aggregate measurements from hundreds of thousands of industrial sensors for real-time visibility into power, temperature, pressure, speed and torque."
Jürgen Sutterlütti Vice President, Energy Segment and Marketing Gantner Instruments Learn more
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"We needed a database that could watch, record and analyse production in real time. CrateDB gives us the freedom to be cumulative and scale limitless - we found no alternative database with such simplicity and efficiency.”
Arno Breuss CIO Rauch Fruchtsäfte Learn more
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"Most of the cars in our customers' fleets are in use almost 24 hours a day, and we need to store and analyse the massive amounts of data they generate in real time. We tried a few different SQL and NoSQL databases, and CrateDB offered the best combination of high performance, scalability and ease of use."
Mark Sutheran Founder Clickdrive.io Learn more
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"CrateDB gives us ease of SQL combined with easy scaling, and real-time querying of full-text data."
Qualtrics Learn more
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