QStudio is now 100% Free. No registration or license required.
Why? Are you shutting down?
Quite the opposite, we believe free and open source is the future and that is where we are going.
If anything we want customers to take this as a massive thanks.
Thank you for being part of driving QStudio forward and sponsoring development and cheering us along all these years.
Thanks in particular to
Thanks in particular to the large finance firms that took a chance on us. Big firms can be bureaucratic with onboarding, purchasing policies, vendor lists, 30 page contracts so I want to thanks all those individuals that jumped those hurdles to get us onboarded and those that put it on the corporate credit card. Below this post is an image containing what may or may not be some customers and other firms that have provided feedback, assistance and input over the years. Strictly speaking we are not allowed to confirm nor deny customers.
What I would say as an external party is that on average these places knew how to complete paperwork, get out of staffs way and enable them to get work done so they are probably better places to work on average.
Over the years, a few larger firms failed to onboard as those attempting it were ground down under the paperwork.
The good news for them is that QStudio is now free and the paperwork should be halved!
If you have any bugs, issues or feedback to report please join us on github
This is me cancelling all the individual users that paid annually for QStudio after 10+ years of building them up! Similarly all corporate contracts are also terminated.
Thanks
Note: For those who recently renewed we are offering a Free Pulse license for 10x the users you purchased for QStudio. Get in touch for a demo.
Want to create beautiful live updating SQL notebooks?
While being able to easily source control the code?
and take static snapshots to share with colleagues that don’t have database access?
Today we launched exactly what you need and it’s available in both:
QStudio Version 4 – Desktop SQL Client entirely based on editing markdown files locally.
Pulse Version 3 – As a shared team server, where users only need a web address to get started and share results.
SQL Notebook Examples
We have worked with leading members of the community to create a showcase of examples.
These are snapshotted versions with static data. The source markdown and most the data to recreate them are available on github.
Let us know what you think, please report any issues, feature suggestions or bugs on our github QStudio issue or Pulse issue tracker.
Thanks to everyone that made this possible. Particularly Brian Luft, Rich Brown, Javier Ramirez, Alexander Unterrainer, Mark Street, James Galligan, Sean Keevey, Kevin Smyth, KX, Nick Psaris and QuestDB.
DuckDB has skyrocketed in the last year and Amsterdam is it’s home. QStudio will be there in 2025.
31st January 2025 – 16:40 Stock data analysis with DuckDB
One year ago we decided to bundle DuckDB as we thought it was awesome. A free column oriented database that can open local databases and perform ASOF joins at speed! We knew QStudio users would love it. This year Ryan is excited to be speaking at Duckcon #6 in Amsterdam.
SQL+Markdown qStudio experiment 🚀 🚀 Quick report creation with nice git code commits.
If this is something that interests you, message me.
Particularly if you have tried other notebooks and hold strong opinions 😡 .
At TimeStored we are constantly running experiments with both Pulse and qStudio with small groups of users to see what new ideas may provide value. Most fail. They don’t always work out or they don’t gather enough interest to be viable but we think SQLMarkdown might be a winner. We are already finding it useful for our own workflows.
DolphinDB and TimeStored working in partnership. Customization of qStudio can be found here.
Contents below.
DolphinDB, a leading provider of the real-time platform for analytics and stream processing, and TimeStored, a pioneering company in the field of data visualization and analytics, are proud to announce a partnership focused on advancing data visualization in quantitative finance. With an emphasis on integrating DolphinDB’s capabilities into TimeStored’s flagship products, qStudio and Pulse, this partnership aims to deliver innovative enhancements to complex analysis scenarios including quantitative trading, high-frequency backtesting, and risk management.
In the competitive field of quantitative trading, a high level of precision in data analysis is essential. Rivals are constantly striving to boost productivity and efficiency to obtain a competitive edge in the dynamic financial markets. To meet this challenge, DolphinDB is committed to providing cutting-edge real-time analytics tools to people worldwide. It offers a unified platform with over 1500 built-in features and a collection of stream computing engines for data warehouse, analytics, and streaming applications. Because of its exceptional efficiency in investment research, DolphinDB has emerged as a significant technology pillar in key areas including strategic research, risk control, and measurement platforms.
Data visualization is intrinsically intertwined with data analysis, serving as an indispensable partner in the exploration of complex datasets and the extraction of valuable insights. By deeply integrating DolphinDB’s efficient investment research capabilities with TimeStored’s advanced visualization technology, we have constructed a scenario which can intuitively display complex financial data. By transforming abstract financial data into intuitive charts and indicators, we significantly enhanced the readability of information and the efficiency of decision-making. It not only meets the current financial market’s demand for data transparency and immediacy but also provides a powerful analysis and decision-support platform for financial professionals. This empowers them to quickly seize opportunities and effectively manage risks in the volatile market.
The latest update to qStudio introduces powerful new features: DolphinDB syntax highlighting, code completion, and a server tree view. These enhancements significantly streamline developers’ workflow, offering intuitive coding and improved navigation. Moreover, the partnership has enabled the visualization of DolphinDB data within TimeStored’s Pulse product. It opens up new horizons for users interested in streaming data visualization, enabling a dynamic and interactive approach to analyzing real-time data.
This partnership leverages the technological strengths of both companies to revolutionize data management. DolphinDB and Timestored are committed to delivering the top-tier solutions for data analysis and quantitative investment research experience to global market participants.
About DolphinDB
Founded in 2016, DolphinDB is committed to providing users worldwide with cutting-edge real-time analytics platforms. Our flagship product, DolphinDB, offers a unified platform for data warehouse, analytics, and streaming workloads. At its core, it is a high-performance distributed time-series database. With a fully featured programming language, over 1500 built-in functions, and a suite of stream computing engines, DolphinDB enables rapid development of high-performance applications for mission-critical tasks in global financial institutions.
As an enterprise-focused real-time analytics provider, we take pride in enabling organizations to unlock the value of big data and make smarter decisions through real-time insights into their most demanding analytical workloads.
About TimeStored
TimeStored specializes in real-time interactive data tools, offering robust solutions since 2013. Their products, like Pulse and qStudio, support a wide array of databases and enhance data analysis capabilities. Pulse enables the creation of real-time interactive dashboards, facilitating collaborative data visualization. qStudio, a free SQL analysis tool, features an intelligent SQL editor with functionalities like syntax highlighting and code completion, aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of data analysts.
QStudio is the best SQL IDE for data analysis. DuckDB is the best free database for OLAP analytical queries.
Together they provide a powerful desktop platform for data analysis.
Powerful Local Database – qDuckDB is now at the core of qStudio.
Save Locally – Convert a query result from any database to store it locally.
Parquet File Viewer – Click to open a parquet file on windows.
Parquet is the stored data standard of the future and works with everything.
Occasionally you want to edit one other file quickly.
To allow that we’ve added highlighting for:
c, cpp, java, bat, sh, html, js, json, xml and properties files.
The java core feature qStudio relied on for license key authentication has been removed in java 17. If you are using a version of qStudio lower than 2.53 you MUST upgrade this year. Download qStudio now.
Old license keys and old versions of qStudio cannot work on java 17+ as the core java library is removed.
qStudio 2.53+ released 2023-08-14 will accept both old and new license keys and work on java 8/9/11/17 …. everything. – Download it now.
All keys provided from 2024-01-01 have been using the new key format. These keys start with QSV3.
We really wish 11+ years ago we hadn’t chosen this particular library but what can you do 🙂
Existing enterprising customers may be issued an old key for exceptional circumstances. If absolutely required, get in touch.
We just launched a new sql documentation website: sqldock.com
to allow integration with Pulse / qStudio and docs more easily.
More updates on this integration will be announced shortly. 🙂
If this is something that interests you, message me.
Particularly if you have tried other notebooks and hold strong opinions 😡 .