| Price from | $1.80/mo | $0.01/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 5 |
| Spec score · Ai Databases | 8.6 (#6) | 7.8 (#22) |
| Integrations | Kinetica's vector search page says embedding providers include OpenAI, NVIDIA NIM, and locally hosted models with a compatible inference endpoint. | The S3-compatible API works with tools and libraries including boto3, AWS SDKs, AWS CLI, Terraform, and rclone by changing the endpoint and access keys. |
| Intended users | The maker presents Kinetica for defense and intelligence, financial services, energy and utilities, telecommunications, logistics and supply chain, and insurance use cases. | Tigris says it is suited to teams needing global storage for AI/ML workloads, avoiding egress charges, or using existing S3-compatible tools. |
| Product | Kinetica describes itself as a distributed, hardware-accelerated database for real-time analytics, combining SQL, vector, graph, time-series, and spatial workloads in one engine. | Tigris is globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage designed for performance, simplicity, cost efficiency, and AI workloads. |
| Security | Kinetica documents role-based permissions, granular access to tables and schemas, and row and column controls including masking and obfuscation. | The features page states that Tigris has SOC 2 Type II, offers HIPAA BAA availability, encrypts data at rest and in transit, and supports access controls down to prefix and operation. |
| Support | Kinetica offers Basic, Standard, and Premium support tiers; Premium includes off-hours and weekend coverage, follow-the-sun case management, and monthly incident reporting. | The pricing page directs users with extraordinary bandwidth needs or unexpected traffic billing questions to [email protected]. |