Kinetica (software)

Kinetica
(formerly GPUdb)
Kinetica Logo
Developer(s) Kinetica DB
(formerly GIS Federal)
Stable release
6.0
Type In-Memory
License Proprietary
Website www.kinetica.com

Kinetica DB, Inc. is a company that develops a distributed, in-memory database management system using graphics processing units (GPUs). The software it markets is also called Kinetica. The company has headquarters in Arlington, Virginia and San Francisco.

History

In 2009, Amit Vij and Nima Neghaban founded GIS Federal, a developer of software they called GPUdb. The GIS stood for Global Intelligence Solutions. GPUdb was initially marketed for US military and intelligence applications, at Fort Belvoir for INSCOM.[1]

The United States Postal Service deployed GPUdb in to production 2014.[2][3]

In 2014 and 2016, the analyst firm International Data Corporation mentioned Kinetica for its production deployments at the US Army and United States Postal Service, respectively. As a result of their work with USPS, IDC announced that Kinetica was the recipient of the HPC Innovation Excellence Award [4] [5]

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.[6] 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.[7][8][9]

In June 2017, the company announced USD$ 50 million in Series A funding led by Canvas Ventures and Meritech Capital Partners, along with new investor Citi Ventures and existing backer Ray Lane of GreatPoint Ventures.[10]

Software

The software is designed to run on graphics processing units such as the Tesla from Nvidia.[11] Partners include Cisco, Dell EMC, HPE, IBM, NVIDIA, Confluent, and Nimbix.

References

  1. ↑ Dan Olds (November 10, 2016). "Terror plot spy project helps Kinetica crank up database speed". The Register. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ Timothy Prickett Morgan (September 22, 2016). "Pushing Database Scalability Up And Out With GPUs". The Next Platform. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  3. ↑ Jim McHugh (June 23, 2016). "Kinetica Helps U.S. Post Office Solve Big Data Problem, Wins Big HPC Award". Nvidia blog. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  4. ↑ "IDC Announces New Winners of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards". Press release. International Data Corporation. November 18, 2014. Archived from the original on January 15, 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  5. ↑ "International Data Corporation (IDC) Lauds Innovations in Supercomputing with Innovation Excellence Awards". Press release. International Data Corporation. June 21, 2016. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Form D: Notice of Sale of Securities". US Securities and Exchange Commission. April 12, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Kinetica Raises $6M in Funding". FinSMEs. September 22, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  8. ↑ Michele Nemschoff (September 26, 2016). "Kinetica Adds $6 Million in Acceleration Funding and Expands Management Team". Press release. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Form D: Notice of Sale of Securities". US Securities and Exchange Commission. October 4, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  10. ↑ "This Hot Database Startup Just Snagged $50 Million in Funding". fortune.com. 2017-06-29. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
  11. ↑ Alex Woodie (2014-10-08). "GPU-Powered Terrorist Hunter Eyes Commercial Big Data Role". Datanami. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
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