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# Welcome to CrateDB!

CrateDB is designed to handle your demanding analytics and search workloads with
ease. Here you'll find comprehensive resources including reference manuals,
tutorials, example code, and more.
CrateDB is a hyper-fast open source multi-model database combining the
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Maybe tune that down a bit, and add a more qualifying adjective instead, like s/hyper/analytics/?

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CrateDB is a hyper-fast open source multi-model database combining the
CrateDB is a fast open source multi-model analytics database combining the

Maybe even rid of "fast", and just use "distributed" instead?

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CrateDB is a hyper-fast open source multi-model database combining the
CrateDB is an open source distributed multi-model analytics database combining the

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simplicity of SQL and flexible schemas with the scalability of a distributed
architecture. CrateDB is a multi-model database. Its strength lies in the
efficient handling of multiple data models within the same database and even
within the same record in a table. This allows you to use one database for all
structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. For example, tabular data,
JSON or documents, time series, vectors, geospatial, full text
and binary objects
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Can this sentence be improved a bit?

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Maybe something like:

This enables you to manage structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data within a single database. CrateDB supports diverse data types such as tabular data, JSON documents, time-series data, vectors, geospatial information, full-text search, and binary objects.


Happy learning and building with CrateDB!

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