About CrateDB

A high-level description about CrateDB, with cross-references to relevant resources in the spirit of a curated knowledge backbone.

CrateDB is a distributed and scalable SQL database for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data in near real-time, even with complex queries. It is based on Lucene, inherits technologies from Elasticsearch, and is compatible with PostgreSQL.

What's inside

• The cratedb-overview.md file includes hints about what CrateDB is and what you can do with it.

• The build/llm folder includes a few llms.txt files generated from cratedb-overview.md. They can be used to provide better context for conversations about CrateDB.

Usage

Install cratedb-about package.

uv tool install --upgrade 'cratedb-about @ git+https://github.com/crate/about'

Ask questions about CrateDB.

export OPENAI_API_KEY=<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>
cratedb-about ask "CrateDB does not seem to provide an AUTOINCREMENT feature?"

If you are running out of questions, get inspired by the standard library.

cratedb-about list-questions