kx kdb – 2019 in Review – Changes
January 22nd, 2020 by admin
Shakti
The biggest shakeup in the KDB world was Arthur Whitney, the founder of KX and creator of KDB selling his stake in KX and moving on to creating a new version of the K language called Shakti. “Shakti merges database, language, connectivity and stream processing into one powerful platform “. So far it appears to overlap heavily with kdb functionality, adding further cryptographic features, while not yet supporting on-disk storage.
KDB Version 3.7 Changes:
- App Direct Mode – give users control over Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory.
- Multi-Threaded Primitive Operations
- Data at Rest Encryption.
KDB Version 3.6 Changes:
- Websocket – Improvements and bugfixes
- Speed Improvements
- When attributes present use them more often.
- Improved Error Reporting
- Broken or closed handles report their number
- Fatal memory errors log a timestamp
FD/KX Products:
- Kx Dashboards – Expanded chart options available
- Enterprise Platform – SAML/GIT integration
- Kx Developer free to all Kx users, and Kx Analyst free to enterprise users.
- Kx Machine Learning Toolkit
- AxLibraries and Q Build Utilities