+Streaming Data Analysis
and Visualization
A Confluent and Kinetica Solution Brief

Ingest real-time data
streams from Apache Kafka®
into Kinetica for immediate
analysis and action.
Uncovering the true value of data continues to be a struggle
for most business leaders. They have volumes of data but are
unable to uncover competitive advantages and recognize ROI. By
accelerating time to insight through GPUs, in-memory technology
and event streaming, answers are made available in real-time for
immediate analysis and action. Organizations across automotive,
energy, telecommunications, retail, and financial services, leverage
the Kinetica Active Analytics Platform with GPU-accelerated
computing power to build custom analytical applications.
With Confluent Platform and the Kinetica Kafka connector, users
can read and write data directly between Confluent and Kinetica,
combine streaming and historical data with location intelligence
to enable machine learning powered business intelligence.

Together, Kinetica andConfluent provide:• Gain powerful insights fromstreaming data joined withhistorical data
• Enable real-timedecisions with Kinetica’s
GPUaccelerated, in-memory
Active Analytics Platformand Kafka• Integrate data sources anddestinations with Kinetica’s
Gold certified Kafka
connector

VisualDashboards
MobileSaaS apps

Microservices

Stream Processing

Active Analytics GPU database

Custom Apps& Geospatial

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Kinetica’s GPU-accelerated, in-memory analytic platform gets
real-time results
Getting fast results from even the smartest queries is complicated by the fact that most architectures built to manage thevolumes of data depend on batch processing using CPUs instead of parallel processing powered by GPUs. Even when dataand processing tasks are distributed across multiple machines to optimize speed, the process is relatively slow comparedto new data architectures that hold data in memory instead of disk and use GPUs instead of CPUs for processing.

Confluent Platform brings Kafka data to life
Confluent Platform enables organizations to harness business value of event data. The Confluent Platform, based on Kafka,
manages the barrage of event streams and makes it available throughout an organization. It provides various industries,
from retail, logistics and manufacturing, to financial services and online social networking, a scalable, unified, real-time data
pipeline that enables applications ranging from large volume data integration to big data analysis with Hadoop to real-timestream processing.

Confluent Platform and Kinetica for an enterprise-readyanalytical insight solution
Confluent Platform is the only enterprise stream platform built entirely on Kafka that makes implementing, managing anddeploying an enterprise streaming platform with Kafka easy, reliable, secure and auditable. Kinetica not only offers GPUs
and in-memory technologies, it also supports a scale-out architecture and high availability so that the insight engine candistribute the information and workloads across multiple machines. Together, the Confluent and Kinetica solution provides
enterprises with powerful analytics on streaming data and historical data, in real-time.

Contact Confluent
Confluent.io/contact+1 (800) 439-3207

Contact Kinetica
Kinetica.com/contact+1 (888) 504-7832

About Confluent

About Kinetica

Confluent, founded by the original

When extreme data requires companies

creators of Apache Kafka®, pioneeredto act with unprecedented agility,

the enterprise-ready event

Kinetica powers business in motion.

streaming platform. With Confluent,

Kinetica is the instant insight engine fororganizations benefit from the firstthe Extreme Data Economy. Kinetica’s

event streaming platform built for

accelerated parallel computing brings

the enterprise with the ease-of-use,thousands of GPU cores to address thescalability, security and flexibility

unpredictability and complexity that

required by the most discerning global

result from extreme data. For morecompanies to run their business in real

information and trial downloads, visit

time. www.confluent.io. Download at

kinetica.com.

www.confluent.io/download.

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