"Crate Data is a shared nothing, fully searchable, document oriented cluster datastore."

Crate Data...

• is a document oriented data store.
• has the ability to scale horizontally extremely well.
• forms a cluster and handles replicas for you.
• offers SQL to query and manage documents.
• lets you specify a schema
  • to define tables
  • and data types.
• offers support to manage BLOBs.

• Download the latest release and unzip the archive.
• Run bin/crate on unix or bin/crate.bat on Windows.
• Start the crate shell by invoking bin/crash.
• Start some more servers to form a cluster and relax.

Crate Data is not only easy to use, it's also easy to get. Use the one method which works best for you.

• Download the latest release and unzip the archive.

Crate Launchpad Page. A package is available for the Ubuntu versions Lucid Lync, Saucy Salamander and Precise Pangolin.

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:crate/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install crate

All Crate Data packages are signed with GPG. To verify the packages the public key must be installed to the system. After that, you can install the .rpm containing the YUM repository definition on your system.

sudo rpm --import https://cdn.crate.io/downloads/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-crate
sudo rpm -Uvh https://cdn.crate.io/downloads/yum/6/x86_64/crate-release-6.5-1.noarch.rpm

Then install Crate Data:

yum install crate

The Crate Data Testing repository is disabled by default. It contains development builds and is frequently updated. If you want to enable the Testing repo on your server, set enabled=1 in /etc/yum.repos.d/crate.repo.

That is certainly not all Crate Data offers to you. Take a look at the documentation found under the docs directory or visit https://docs.crate.io/current/. If you already installed Crate Data you can also use the documentation that was shipped with it and is available via http://localhost:4200/_plugin/docs/.

There are several different ways to manage data in Crate.

• The admin interface
• Python client (see: GitHub, pypi, get it: pip install crate)
  • The python client also comes with the Crate Shell (crash). crash is a command-line util to perform SQL queries,...
• Java client

You can build Crate Data on your own with the latest version hosted on GitHub. To do so, please refer to DEVELOP.rst and CONTRIBUTING.rst for further information.

Do you have any questions? Or suggestions? We would be very happy to help you. So, feel free to swing by our IRC channel #crate on Freenode. Or for further information and official contact please visit https://crate.io/.