Kinetica

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Architecture

Its database is distributed, columnar, memory-first, and vectorized, and it orchestrates work across GPUs and CPUs.kinetica.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Cloud free limits

The free Kinetica Cloud account includes up to 10GB storage, shared compute, full database functionality, unlimited SQL and API access, and basic support.cloud.kinetica.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Company

Kinetica's contact page lists its address as 8219 Leesburg Pike, Suite 650, Vienna, Virginia 22182.kinetica.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Developer setup

The local Developer Edition runs as a Docker container and requires Docker with at least 8GB of RAM allocated.kinetica.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Enterprise authentication

Enterprise Edition supports external authentication through LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory, or Kerberos.kinetica.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Enterprise deployment

Enterprise Edition is self-managed and can run on customer-selected hardware, on-premise, or through AWS and Azure Marketplace.kinetica.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Integrations

Kinetica's vector search page says embedding providers include OpenAI, NVIDIA NIM, and locally hosted models with a compatible inference endpoint.kinetica.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Intended users

The maker presents Kinetica for defense and intelligence, financial services, energy and utilities, telecommunications, logistics and supply chain, and insurance use cases.kinetica.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Product

Kinetica describes itself as a distributed, hardware-accelerated database for real-time analytics, combining SQL, vector, graph, time-series, and spatial workloads in one engine.kinetica.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Real-time data

The maker says Kafka and CDC records can be queried as they arrive, while streaming materialized views update as records arrive.kinetica.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Security

Kinetica documents role-based permissions, granular access to tables and schemas, and row and column controls including masking and obfuscation.docs.kinetica.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Support

Kinetica offers Basic, Standard, and Premium support tiers; Premium includes off-hours and weekend coverage, follow-the-sun case management, and monthly incident reporting.kinetica.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Vector search

Kinetica says new embeddings are searchable as they land and that vector search can run with structured filters, joins, and time windows in one SQL statement.kinetica.com · read 4 Oct 2026

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