# Is crate time series or search engine

**URL:** <https://community.cratedb.com/t/is-crate-time-series-or-search-engine/1135>\
**Category:** CrateDB\
**Created:** [June 2, 2022, 4:41am UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/is-crate-time-series-or-search-engine/1135 "2022-06-02T04:41:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![hooopo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.cratedb.com/hooopo/32/595_2.png) [@hooopo](https://community.cratedb.com/u/hooopo)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 4:41am UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/is-crate-time-series-or-search-engine/1135/1 "2022-06-02T04:41:27Z")

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Can I ask if you prefer to call yourself a time series database or a search engine?

related: [CrateDB is not typical time series database · Issue #319 · pingcap/ossinsight · GitHub](https://github.com/pingcap/ossinsight/issues/319)

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**Author:** ![proddata](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.cratedb.com/proddata/32/1379_2.png) [@proddata](https://community.cratedb.com/u/proddata)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 7:28am UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/is-crate-time-series-or-search-engine/1135/2 "2022-06-03T07:28:47Z")

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> [@hooopo](#):
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> Can I ask if you prefer to call yourself a time series database or a search engine?

Hi @hooopo

I think that is a though question 😬 as CrateDB is definitely a multi-model solution.  
In terms of time series db vs search engine, I would tend to time series db as this has been in core focus for some time.