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Kinetica Developer Edition (totally free)

Install and run Kinetica on your local machine as a Docker container or you can use our Kinetica serverless with free forever 10gb of storage and up to burstable compute capacity up to 4 cores.

Getting Started

Installation Steps

Get Kinetica running on your machine in minutes.

Step 1 — Get the Container

Requires Docker with at least 8GB of RAM allocated.

curl https://files.kinetica.com/install/kinetica.sh -o kinetica && chmod u+x kinetica && ./kinetica start

Step 2

Start Kinetica

The Kinetica shell script manages your installation, starts, and stops the database.

For GPU instances:

./kinetica --gpu start

For CPU instances:

./kinetica start

Step 3

Install Agent Skills and launch Workbench

Teach Claude Code to write correct Kinetica SQL, build applications, and interactively operate the database.

npx skills add kineticadb/agent-skills

Workbench is an interactive notebook environment for querying, analyzing and visualizing your data with SQL. You can launch it via your browser using the following link localhost:8000/workbench/

The default username is admin.

Other Commands

Stop Kinetica

./kinetica stop

Change password

./kinetica alter-password

The default username is "admin." You will be prompted to set a password for this username during the installation process. To change it later, use the command below.

For more commands and configuration options:

./kinetica --help

Need help?

Having installation issues? Or want to ask a question?