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CrateDB: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

CrateDB is a distributed SQL database for real-time analytics on operational data, aimed at teams that handle large volumes of data with many distinct values. In a single engine, CrateDB combines time series, JSON documents, full-text search, vector search, geospatial and relational data, queryable with standard SQL. Data can be queried immediately after ingestion. Built-in replication, automatic sharding and failover allow horizontal scaling. There are three editions: CrateDB OSS, CrateDB Enterprise and the managed CrateDB Cloud.

The open source core is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, so you can run CrateDB yourself, on premises, at the edge or in a cloud of your choice, including with a European provider. Crate.io was founded in Dornbirn, Austria, and lists offices in the United States, Germany and Austria. CrateDB Cloud can be obtained through the AWS, Azure and GCP marketplaces. With a self-hosted deployment you decide where your data resides.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-675
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 2, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Data Platform & Warehouse
Type
Product
Website
crate.io ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to CrateDB

The European alternatives to CrateDB come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with CrateDB

CrateDB is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so CrateDB scores best on data residency.

CrateDB is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs CrateDB together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to CrateDB?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to CrateDB include DuckDB, Exasol and Falkor. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to CrateDB?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to CrateDB include DuckDB, Garage and MonetDB. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is CrateDB GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

CrateDB is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 2, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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