Crate Data

"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.

Getting Started

Installation

• 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.

Get Crate Data

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

Binary Archive

• Download the latest release and unzip the archive.

Debian Package

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

RPM: CentOS, Scientific Linux

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.

Where to go from here?

That is certainly not all Crate Data offers to you. To take a look at the documentation visit https://crate.io/docs/.

Managing data

There are several different ways to manage data in Crate.

• The admin interface
• For for further clients in different languages see Crate Documentation.

Are you a Developer?

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.

Help & Contact

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/.