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.
The United States Postal Service deployed GPUdb in to production 2014.
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.
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 $6 million investment, and an office in San Francisco, while keeping its office in Arlington, Virginia. After adding marketing and service people, the name of both the company and product was changed to Kinetica.
In June 2017, the company announced USD$ 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
Compression
Kinetica supports data compression by individual column. Dictionary encoding can be applied to individual columns of restricted-length (charN) type, int type, or long type. During the query execution, when data is retrieved, Kinetica can temporarily decompressed a copy and discard the copy later. For data added or modification, the affected data segment will be uncompressed, modified, and then recompressed immediately.
Website
Tech Docs
https://www.kinetica.com/docs/index.html
Developer
Kinetica DB Inc.
Country of Origin
Start Year
2009
Former Name
GPUdb
Project Type
Written in
Supported languages
C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python