Details
- Vendor
- Kinetica
- Type
- Multiple
- Category
- Established
- License
- Proprietary
- Language
- C++
- Query Languages
- SQL
- Protocols
- HTTP/RESTPostgreSQL wireJDBC/ODBC
Kinetica
A GPU-accelerated analytical database with a graph solver component for shortest path, pattern matching, and geospatial network analysis. Uses proprietary SQL extensions for graph operations on weighted and directed graphs. Also supports spatial, time-series, and vector search workloads.
- Overall rank
- #72
- First released
- 2009
- License
- Proprietary
- Built with
- C++
Details
Sources 7 references
Protocols HTTP/REST, JDBC/ODBC, PostgreSQL wire
Kinetica documents three independent client channels: a REST/JSON API (wrapped by its language SDKs), official ODBC and JDBC drivers, and a separate PostgreSQL Wire Protocol listener on port 5432 for any Postgres-compatible client. pass_A's gap was omitting the documented Postgres wire protocol page.
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The following shows the means of connecting to Kinetica via the various APIs available.
API Concepts | Kinetica Docs · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
Kinetica provides a SQL interface through its ODBC & JDBC drivers, which run on Linux, Mac, & Windows.
ODBC/JDBC Connector Guide | Kinetica Docs · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
Point any client able to make use of PostgreSQL Wire Protocol at Kinetica on port 5432 to connect.
PostgreSQL Wire Protocol | Kinetica Docs · reviewed 2026-08-02
License Proprietary
Confirms current value; independent tech press explicitly describes Kinetica as closed-source/proprietary.
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Kinetica is a proprietary architecture that works with other data stores and visualization engines
Kinetica aims to speed users onto its graphics chip database train - SiliconANGLE · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
GPUdb and now Kinetica are not open source, and it is not clear they will ever be.
Pushing Database Scalability Up And Out With GPUs · reviewed 2026-08-02
Released 2009
Confirms current value; Kinetica's predecessor company GIS Federal was founded in 2009 to build the GPUdb software that later became Kinetica.
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In 2009, Amit Vij and Nima Neghaban founded GIS Federal, a developer of software they called GPUdb.
Kinetica (software) · reviewed 2026-08-02
Language C++
Confirms current value via a secondary catalog source; Kinetica has not published primary documentation stating the core engine's implementation language, only that it was built from scratch without relying on open-source projects.
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Written in C, C++
Kinetica · Database of Databases · reviewed 2026-08-02