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.

The CrateDB project was started by Christian Lutz, Bernd Dorn, and Jodok Batlogg[3] in Dornbin, Austria as an open source, clustered database purposedly built for fast text search and analytics.

[5] In June that year, CrateDB won the judge's choice award at the GigaOm Structure Launchpad competition.