Kinetica Docs Home¶
Kinetica is a distributed database designed to leverage many core devices like the modern GPU. Kinetica can be interacted with using SQL or one of many APIs, including C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, and REST.
- Overview
- Get a concise overview of Kinetica, including its architecture, and the features that allow it to be the fastest distributed operational database in the market.
Features¶
- Concepts
- Introductory guide to understanding the core concepts of Kinetica
- Geospatial Features
- A guide to the geospatial features built into Kinetica
- Functions
- A high level overview of Kinetica functions
- SQL Support
- SQL support reference
- User-Defined Functions Overview
- The basics of User-Defined Functions
- Analytic Desktops
- Description of analytical tools available for Kinetica
- Active Analytics Workbench (AAW)
- A guide to using Kinetica's Active Analytics Workbench
- Network Graphs & Solvers
- A guide to using the Kinetica graphs solver
- Cloud-Ready
- A guide to Kinetica's cloud-readiness
Installation & Configuration¶
- Installation
- Detailed Kinetica instructions for local, cloud-based, and Docker installations
- Upgrade
- A guide to upgrading Kinetica
- Resource Management
- Resource Management in Kinetica, including Tiered Storage, Scheduling, Allocation, & QoS
- Security
- Security features of Kinetica
- High Availability
- High availability for Kinetica
- Administration
- A guide to administering Kinetica
- Configuration Reference
- Reference for the configuration file
Integration¶
- Tutorials
- Step-by-step tutorials for developing applications using Kinetica
- Performance Optimization
- Optimizing Kinetica with large data sets
- Connectors
- Description of various connectors available for Kinetica
- User-Defined Function Implementation
- Guides for writing & running UDFs, as well as several example programs
- API
- API references for various languages
- Downloads
- Download the language-specific APIs and connectors to other applications
- Kinetica Tools
- Suite of tools to help maximize efficiency when using Kinetica