Sometimes it helps just to test with something real. The Twitter importer lets you quickly test your new Crate instance with real data. Press the button, and watch your cluster quickly fill up in real time with live Tweets. You can always delete them later.
After authentication Twitter allows you to consume a small fraction of their public stream, hence the slow import. In a production environment you can index hundreds of thousands of records per second.
SELECT text FROM tweets LIMIT 100
after you have added some tweets.Importing tweets. {{ count }} tweets imported.