CrateDB

CrateDB is a distributed SQL database management system that integrates a fully searchable document-oriented data store. It is open-source, written in Java, based on a shared-nothing architecture, and designed for high scalability. CrateDB includes components from Trino, Lucene, Elasticsearch and Netty.

History
The CrateDB project was started by Christian Lutz, Bernd Dorn, and Jodok Batlogg, an open source contributor and creator who has contributed to the Open Source Initiative Vorarlberg while at Lovely Systems in Dornbirn. The software is an open source, clustered database used for fast text search and analytics.

The company, now called Crate.io, raised its first round of financing in April 2014. In June that year, Crate.io won the judge's choice award at the GigaOm Structure Launchpad competition. In October, Crate.io won the TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in London.

Crate.io closed a $4M founding round in March 2016. In December, CrateDB 1.0 was released having more than one million downloads.

CrateDB 2.0, the first Enterprise Edition of CrateDB, was released in May 2017  after a $2.5M round from Dawn Capital, Draper Esprit, Speedinvest, and Sunstone Capital. In June 2021 Crate.io announced another $10M funding round.

Since March 2023, Crate.io is led by Lars Färnström.