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Kinetica
Company blog · kinetica.com/blog · on HN as Kinetica_DBdataprogramming
Kinetica is the company blog at kinetica.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for material on GPU-accelerated databases and SQL, including an arg_max aggregate example in the company's docs and a list of articles on how GPUs help databases.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kinetica is the distributed, hardware-accelerated database for real-time analytics at any scale — SQL, vector, graph, time-series, and spatial in one engine, answering in milliseconds.
What Hacker News says?
Kinetica| Arlington, VA | Full-time | ONSITE but Remote (potentially) | https://www.kinetica.com/ We're a software platform start-up headquartered in SF. Our Active Analytics Platform includes a distributed, in-memory, GPU-accelerated database that utilizes a powerful combination of CPUs and GPUs to analyze massive, complex datasets with millisecond response times. Our engineering team is based 5 miles outside of DC…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)”Submitted Efficiently Donating Excess Covid Vaccine Supplies as a story · 26 points
HN discussionWith Kinetica you can use the 'arg_max' aggregate function select department, max(gross_salary), arg_max(gross_salary, first_name) from salary group by department https://www.kinetica.com/docs/concepts/sql.html#sql-aggregat...
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on “Introduction to Window Functions in SQL”Submitted The GPU will be the premiere compute device for Analytics not just AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFRom a series of Google searches and webcrawls i maintain for myself for my middle and upper managers. So this is not technical stuff http://www.infoworld.com/article/3123747/data-center/faster-... https://blazingdb.com http://diginomica.com/2016/04/11/do-gpu-optimized-databases-... https://www.kinetica.com https://www.mapd.com and of course many many more scholarly articles through arxiv
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on “Ask HN: How do GPUs help in databases”Submitted How to combine two tables when values don't match as a story · 1 points
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