October 7, 2022
Introduction To KDB+
Features
- High Performance Database, managing real time and historical data within a single platform
- Column Oriented
- Embedded query language – q
- In-memory and on-disk data access
- Optimized and configurable partitioning of on-disk data
- 64-bit architecture with built-in multi-threaded support
- Direct analysis on data
- High speed time series analysis
- Discrete and continuous joins
- Small and portable (500kB vs 3.2G min for Oracle)
- No additional layers of query optimizers make it real fast
- Vector-based language, so code is generally concise and result is achieved in less code
- No separate DBA team is required as Developer or Support can easily maintain the Database