Stable release 6.0 Type In-Memory | Development status Active Website www.kinetica.com | |
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Developer(s) Kinetica DB(formerly GIS Federal) | ||
Kinetica, also known as Kinetica DB, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that develops a distributed, in-memory database management system using graphics processing units (GPUs).
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History
Amit Vij and Nima Neghaban founded a company called GIS Federal in 2009 who developed the software called GPUdb. The GIS stood for Global Intelligence Solutions. GPUdb was initially marketed for US military and intelligence applications, at Fort Belvoir for the US Army Intelligence and Security Command.
The United States Postal Service deployed GPUdb in 2014.
Marketing firm International Data Corporation mentioned the software in 2014 and 2016.
On March 3, 2016, the name of the company was changed to GPUdb to match the name of the software, and a $7 million investment was announced which included Raymond J. Lane. In September 2016, it announced another $6 million investment, and an office in San Francisco, while keeping its office in Arlington, Virginia. After adding marketing and service people, the name of both the company and product was changed to Kinetica.
Software
The software uses graphics processing units such as the Tesla from Nvidia or the Xeon Phi from Intel.