November 16th, 2015 by Ryan Hamilton
Julia programming language is being touted as the next big thing in scientific programming. It’s high-level like R/Python but meant to be much faster due to its smart compiler. I’ve been giving it a bit of a tryout, as part of learning it I’ve generated a list of all julia functions and will be creating examples for some of the more popular ones.
November 5th, 2015 by John Dempster
Previously on our blog we had a lively debate about a possibly Open Sourced kdb+ , unfortunately kx now seems to be moving the opposite direction. In a recent announcement they are now restricting “32-bit kdb+ for non-commercial use only”. The timing is particularly unfortunate as:
Alternative (far less enterprise proven) solutions are available:
- MAN AHL have released Arctic an open source Market Data platform based on python and MongoDB
- Kerf Database – A DB aimed at the same market as kdb has now partnered with Briarcliff-Hall and is making greater sales inroads
This renewed interest in kdb alternatives hasn’t so far delivered a kdb+ killer but I fear in time it will.
