<s>
Kinetica	B-Application
is	O
a	O
distributed	O
,	O
memory-first	O
OLAP	B-Application
database	O
developed	O
by	O
Kinetica	B-Application
DB	O
,	O
Inc	O
.	O
Kinetica	B-Application
is	O
designed	O
to	O
use	O
GPUs	B-Architecture
and	O
modern	O
vector	B-Operating_System
processors	I-Operating_System
to	O
improve	O
performance	O
on	O
complex	O
queries	O
across	O
large	O
volumes	O
of	O
real-time	B-General_Concept
data	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kinetica	B-Application
is	O
well	O
suited	O
for	O
analytics	O
on	O
streaming	O
geospatial	O
and	O
temporal	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2009	O
,	O
Amit	O
Vij	O
and	O
Nima	O
Neghaban	O
founded	O
GIS	O
Federal	O
,	O
a	O
developer	O
of	O
software	O
they	O
called	O
GPUdb	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
GPUdb	B-Application
was	O
initially	O
marketed	O
for	O
US	O
military	O
and	O
intelligence	O
applications	O
,	O
at	O
Fort	O
Belvoir	O
for	O
INSCOM	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2014	O
and	O
2016	O
,	O
the	O
analyst	O
firm	O
International	O
Data	O
Corporation	O
mentioned	O
Kinetica	B-Application
for	O
its	O
production	O
deployments	O
at	O
the	O
US	O
Army	O
and	O
United	O
States	O
Postal	O
Service	O
,	O
respectively	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
result	O
of	O
their	O
work	O
with	O
USPS	O
,	O
IDC	O
announced	O
that	O
Kinetica	B-Application
was	O
the	O
recipient	O
of	O
the	O
HPC	O
Innovation	O
Excellence	O
Award	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
March	O
3	O
,	O
2016	O
,	O
the	O
name	O
of	O
the	O
company	O
was	O
changed	O
to	O
GPUdb	B-Application
to	O
match	O
the	O
name	O
of	O
the	O
software	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
$7	O
million	O
investment	O
was	O
announced	O
which	O
included	O
Raymond	O
J	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
adding	O
marketing	O
and	O
service	O
people	O
,	O
the	O
name	O
of	O
both	O
the	O
company	O
and	O
product	O
was	O
changed	O
to	O
Kinetica	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
software	O
is	O
designed	O
to	O
run	O
on	O
graphics	B-Architecture
processing	I-Architecture
units	I-Architecture
such	O
as	O
the	O
Tesla	B-Device
from	O
Nvidia	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Partners	O
include	O
Cisco	O
,	O
Dell	O
EMC	O
,	O
HPE	O
,	O
IBM	O
,	O
NVIDIA	O
,	O
Confluent	O
,	O
Amazon	B-Application
,	O
Microsoft	O
,	O
Google	B-Application
,	O
and	O
Oracle	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
Kinetica	B-Application
's	O
core	O
is	O
a	O
distributed	O
,	O
memory-first	O
relational	O
SQL	O
database	O
that	O
utilizes	O
the	O
processing	O
power	O
of	O
CPUs	O
with	O
the	O
acceleration	O
of	O
multi-core	O
GPU	B-Architecture
devices	O
to	O
analyze	O
and	O
visualize	O
data	O
with	O
fast	O
(	O
often	O
millisecond	O
)	O
response	O
times	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kinetica	B-Application
is	O
designed	O
to	O
handle	O
streaming	O
,	O
batch	O
and	O
historic	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
features	O
include	O
graph	O
solving	O
algorithms	O
,	O
user	O
defined	O
functions	O
,	O
geospatial	O
functions	O
,	O
the	O
Advanced	O
Analytics	O
Workbench	O
for	O
deploying	O
machine	O
learning	O
and	O
deep	O
learning	O
algorithms	O
,	O
natural	O
language	O
processing	O
,	O
automatic	O
storage	O
tiering	O
,	O
and	O
Kinetica	B-Application
Reveal	O
-	O
a	O
web-based	O
dashboarding	O
tool	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
United	O
States	O
Postal	O
Service	O
deployed	O
Kinetica	B-Application
in	O
to	O
production	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
