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CrateDB Appoints Robert Ekstrom as new CEO

CrateDB — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:41:39 GMT

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 2, 2025 - CrateDB, the real-time database for analytics, search, and AI across any data, today announced the appointment of Robert Ekstrom as Chief Executive Officer. Ekstrom's arrival marks a major milestone for the company as it accelerates its growth trajectory and deepens its commitment to customers worldwide. Alongside this strategic leadership move, CrateDB also welcomes Gregor Bauer as Vice President of Customer Engineering.

Tech Mahindra and CrateDB Partner to Provide Agentic AI Solutions for Automotive, Manufacturing and Smart Factories

michael.kremmel@crate.io (Michael Kremmel) — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:45:00 GMT

Hanover, Germany – April 1st, 2025: Tech Mahindra (NSE: TECHM), a leading global provider of technology consulting and digital solutions to enterprises across industries, and CrateDB, a data management company, announced a strategic partnership at Hannover Messe 2025, the world’s premier trade fair for industrial technology. The partnership will revolutionize the automotive, manufacturing, and smart factory sectors by delivering advanced agentic AI solutions that leverage real-time data analytics, enabling businesses to drive innovation and efficiency at scale.

ABB Revolutionizes Smart Charging with OPTIMAX® Cloud, Powered by CrateDB

CrateDB — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:52:21 GMT

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ABB, a global leader in electrification and automation, is setting new standards for smart charging and energy optimization with its innovative OPTIMAX® Cloud solution. Leveraging CrateDB, the leading real-time analytics database, ABB's platform delivers unparalleled efficiency and sustainability to smart charging networks worldwide.

OPTIMAX® Cloud is ABB's flagship Industrial IoT solution for optimizing energy systems, particularly in the rapidly growing e-mobility sector. As electric vehicles (EVs) become mainstream, managing charging infrastructure with precision and scalability is critical. OPTIMAX® Cloud enables operators to minimize costs, balance energy loads, and ensure the seamless integration of renewable energy sources—all while maintaining grid stability.

"CrateDB's real-time analytics capabilities empower us to make data-driven decisions in milliseconds," said Christian Kohlmeyer, Product Owner Mobility & Sites at ABB. "This partnership allows us to offer a cutting-edge solution that meets the evolving demands of energy management and EV charging."

CrateDB Collaborates with ABB for Their industrial IoT and AI Suite

CrateDB — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:39:56 GMT

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ABB's industrial IoT and AI suite, Ability™ Genix, leverages CrateDB for analyzing and contextualizing data from industrial operations, providing actionable insights to customers.

As per reports, less than 20% of data generated by industrial companies is being used, and ABB Ability™ Genix helps customers change this. Launched in 2020, ABB Ability™ Genix is an industrial data-centric platform that combines AI/ML and domain knowledge to deliver contextually rich data across multiple sectors. The platform expands beyond sensors and devices to include engineering, operations, and ERP/IT systems data, integrating them into the platform with pre-made adapters and ABB's domain knowledge.

To ensure advanced capabilities, scalability, and flexible deployment, ABB selected CrateDB – a database with effective data aggregation, analysis, and compatibility with different data types for many use cases.

CrateDB is an open-source, multi-model, distributed database with excellent performance and scalability, making it ideal for modern data-intensive applications. After a successful 6-month pilot program with CrateDB, ABB solidified this partnership by expanding to the ABB Ability™ Genix Platform and deploying the solution across numerous use cases.

Marko Sommarberg, Director Digital Ecosystems at ABB, shared that ABB had several positive outcomes while working with CrateDB. The benefits include horizontal scalability, a multi-model database engine with advanced time series features and hybrid search, multi-platform support, automatically distributed queries across the whole cluster, ingestion and throughput performance. These features enable Genix to unlock the value of data for industrial customers.

"CrateDB is an important enabler for us to work with advanced data analysis and data management capabilities,"- said Marko Sommarberg.

"ABB exemplifies the capabilities of CrateDB, and we are proud to play a key role in powering the ABB Ability™ Genix Platform."– said Lars Färnström, CEO of CrateDB.

CrateDB Announces Strategic Partnership with Axcess.io to Drive Data Modernization and Real-Time Analytics on AWS

CrateDB — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:35:09 GMT

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ CrateDB, the leading database for real-time analytics, today announced a new partnership with Axcess.io, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner specializing in cloud transformation, app modernization, and data migration. This collaboration aims to accelerate data-driven innovation, helping enterprises transition to modern cloud architectures while enhancing their real-time data processing capabilities.

Axcess.io has been at the forefront of cloud transformation for years, providing customized solutions for application and infrastructure modernization. As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, they bring deep expertise in migrating legacy systems to scalable cloud environments. This partnership with CrateDB will further bolster their offerings by introducing CrateDB's real-time analytics database, which delivers high-performance, instant data insights and semantic search capabilities across various industries, particularly for IoT and data-heavy applications.

"We are thrilled to partner with Axcess.io to bring real-time analytics and data modernization to the next level," said Lars Färnström, CrateDB CEO. "By leveraging Axcess.io's proven expertise in cloud transformation, combined with CrateDB's robust, scalable database technology, businesses can now unlock the full potential of their data, driving more efficient operations and faster decision-making."

Axcess.io sees great potential in the partnership with CrateDB, particularly for clients in manufacturing, logistics, and other industries that rely heavily on IoT and machine-generated data. CrateDB's ability to handle massive volumes of structured and unstructured data in real-time is crucial for optimizing operations, enabling smart manufacturing, and improving supply chain management.

"CrateDB's time-series database, with its SQL compatibility and scalability, provides a strong foundation for our clients to manage and analyze large data streams in real-time," said Amal Gupta, AI and Data Lead at Axcess.io. "This partnership allows us to offer innovative solutions that meet the growing demand for real-time insights and smarter decision-making."

Together, CrateDB and Axcess.io will help businesses modernize their data infrastructures, addressing key challenges such as high operational costs and scalability issues with outdated technologies. CrateDB's ability to process and analyze time-series data efficiently will enhance Axcess.io's cloud modernization initiatives, creating seamless, scalable solutions for enterprises looking to transition to data-driven, real-time decision-making models.

Both companies anticipate significant growth from this partnership, particularly in developing joint solutions for industries such as manufacturing, logistics, and telecommunications. Future projects may include advanced real-time analytics platforms for IoT applications and optimized data processing systems tailored for specific use cases.

Introducing New Board Members: Bruce Cleveland and Kemal Koeksal

CrateDB — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:39:01 GMT

We are thrilled to announce that Bruce Cleveland and Kemal Koeksal have joined CrateDB's Board of Directors. Their impressive backgrounds and strategic insights will be instrumental in guiding CrateDB through our next phase of growth.

Taleo Consulting and CrateDB Announce Strategic Partnership

CrateDB — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:42:11 GMT

CrateDB Appoints Jeff Olson as New CRO

CrateDB — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:32:52 GMT

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CrateDB, the enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors, today announced that Jeff Olson has been appointed as the company's new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), effective immediately.

In his new role, Olson will be responsible for leading the company's revenue across the company's product portfolio. Previously Olson recently served at MongoDB leading GTM for their Edge/Mobile solutions, having joined them when the acquired Realm where he was Sr. VP of Sales & Marketing.

"I am excited to join CrateDB and so impressed with what they built so far. The way they are able to simplify the data architecture for their customers while offering developers a familiar SQL interface for a multi-model distributed database with NoSQL-like performance. The ability of CrateDB to provide native vector store support makes it a natural fit for emerging MLOps paradigm and AI applications that require fast data ingest with high-performance queries that is affordable, scalable and cloud agnostic," said Jeff Olson. "This is an outstanding team and I look forward to working with them to further accelerate the company's growth and solidify its position as a leader in the database market."

Jeff Olson is an experienced professional with over two decades of expertise in the software, technology, data, and open-source industries. He has a proven track record of leading high-performing sales teams.

"We are thrilled to welcome Jeff to our team as our new CRO, his extensive experience in building world class sales teams, combined with his love of emerging companies and technology, make him the ideal candidate to lead our sales efforts and help us achieve our goals," said Lars Färnström, CrateDB CEO.

CrateDB Announces Availability of CrateDB on Google Cloud Marketplace

CrateDB — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:20:26 GMT

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CrateDB, the enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors, today announced its availability on Google Cloud Marketplace, dedicated to building the most open and innovative AI ecosystem. This strategic move allows businesses to seamlessly integrate CrateDB with their Google Cloud infrastructure, enabling them to leverage data in their time series and AI projects and develop meaningful insights like never before.

CrateDB Partners with HiveMQ

CrateDB — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:52:41 GMT

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CrateDB, the enterprise database for time series, documents and vectors, is proud to announce a new partnership with HiveMQ, the most trusted MQTT platform.

Together, they decided to offer a joint solution that collects large volumes of IoT data via MQTT – a lightweight messaging protocol particularly well-suited for IoT applications – and stores it in a highly scalable distributed time series database.