Kinetica displays its data-crunching prowess at #DATA17
LAS VEGAS- The world’s most passionate data enthusiasts gather at Tableau Conference each year to share knowledge, to build vizzes, and to engage not only with each other, but also to check out what other leading edge technology vendors are showing off.
This week at least some of them discovered Kinetica which claims to make the world’s fastest GPU (graphical processing unit)accelerated analytics database. It is used by organizations that need to process huge volumes and varieties of streaming data incredibly fast. Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline leverages Kinetica for advanced machine learning and chemical simulations in drug research and for fast data queries on multi-billion row datasets.
When Tableau users want to gain insight on ginormous datasets, streaming data, or run extraordinarily complex queries, some of them bring in Kinetica to churn the data.
The US Postal Service uses Kinetica to track more than 200,000 mail trucks, delivering more than 500 million pieces of mail to more than 154 million addresses daily. Not only can Kinetica display precise locations at any point in time, but traffic and weather condition overlays can also be applied to optimize routes. Last year insights gleaned from Kinetica’s database yielded savings of more than $70 million.
Kinetica’s processing power was also key in discovering a postal carrier who had picked up the mail for his route in the morning and then trashed it without ever attempting to make a delivery.
Pattern recognition led to the discovery.
Kinetica’s primary differentiators’ according to Ventana Research technology analyst Mark Smith, are its ability to scale and its processing power.
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) uses Kinetica to map out its energy grid according to Eric Mizell, vice president, Global Solutions Engineering at Kinetica. One of the biggest benefits is that if a defective part causes a problem in a transformer, every other transformer with the same part can be identified and proactively addressed if necessary.
While Kinetica already has an impressive list of top tier enterprise clients like Caesars, GlaxoSmithKline, PG&E, US Postal Service, and IronNet Cybersecurity, it is adding new capabilities that will help more companies glean more powerful insights and harden it for enterprise use.
At Tableau’s user conference, Kinetica announced Kinetica 6.1, the company’s second big release this year. Mizell said that his team added new features like compression, dictionary encoding, enhanced process management and enhanced security as well as new geospatial capabilities. Find specific details here.
