It’s a New Year, traditionally the time to consider a potential job change.
To help your search we have:
I present the kdb+ learning curve:
Admittedly it has got a little better in the last ten years:
– Google will return some results that may contain useful solutions
– The documentation online has grown massively. q for mortals, timestored material
– There have been multiple books written
But very little has changed to make the language more friendly.
– There is a debugger but it’s not very user friendly.
– The error messages are still cryptic
Some parts probably can’t be helped…. right-to-left recursion is always going to surprise people but it would be nice to see some attempts.
A massive thanks for those that got in touch last month to wish us well on our new product launch. It has been exciting seeing the uptake and receiving user feedback. A particularly big thanks to JP/VS/JC/IL and MC.
Based on user requests, the largest developments since last month have been:
If you need fast visualization or tableau is proving too slow, this is your chance to get in early and help steer development to solve your problem.
Contact us, if you have any feedback or need assistance with configuration.
Issues can be posted to github and source is available for customers.
Pulse – kdb+ Streaming Subscriptions
Pulse – example customization
It’s been almost ten years since the launch of qStudio and our original sqlDashboards.
We have seen the need for fast real-time interactive dashboards increase.
Quants increasingly want to build, deploy and roll out visualizations faster and more reliably.
As such we are excited to annnounce Pulse, an HTML5/react based solution that allows you to build a dashboards based on kdb+ or postgresql or mysql data.
It’s early days and the product is under heavy development:
If you have a need for fast visualizations that you haven’t solved or tableau is proving too slow, this is your chance to get in early and help steer development to solve your problem.
qStudio is the number one code editor, server browser and development environment for kdb+.
Today we are launching Pulse, a real-time SQL visualization tool for almost any SQL database.
Within Pulse we have recreated almost all the functionality of qStudio in web form.
If you’ve ever wanted to:
You should consider using Pulse as a shared HTML5 based complement to qStudio..
As you can see below, pulse can be made to look almost the exact same as qStudio. It features the familiar configurable layout with a table/console/charting result panel that allows you to see your result in all formats at once.
Additionally you can
This article was drafted in 2019, given it’s 2021 it made an interesting look back and sadly still a look forward….
There have been two big changes in the software world:
From these shifts, there have been winners and losers
If kdb doesn’t change it will become a legacy platform with developers maintaining legacy systems that over time will be replaced with modern cloud alternatives.
Therefore we are starting two initiatives:
We have a skunkworks team based in their own office, tasked with making a kdb database cloud solution so reliable and feature rich your kdb expert can now stop working to keep the database running and instead focus on business problems.
We want kdb to run everywhere, for the barriers to adoption to drop and for the language to expand what it can do. A new kdb user will be able to run kdb on their machine through their standard package manager and to access a whole library of utilities to help them with whatever task they are trying to achieve.
To do this, we’ve formed a committee including representatives from finance/education and the wider community to:
By both open sourcing the language and allowing easier development of shareable packages we accelerate the pace at which kdb can help all developers solve problems and share solutions. Making the kdb platform stronger for everyone.
It’s an exciting time and the demand for storing and analysing large time-series is growing. We believe by becoming cloud first and community driven we can continue to provide solutions for many years to come.
Features I want:
Jq has now added support for:
The added keywords in most cases will only support the most common types and arguments.
Mixed lists in particular are not handled well by most keywords but we will continue to improve.
We often get asked what is in our online training course.
We do describe this on the course page and in a PDF to be be totally thorough here’s a screenshot of our full listing:
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.
FD/KX Products: