KDB+

kdb+ is

a high-performance cross-platform historical timeseries columnar database
an in-memory compute engine
a realtime streaming processor
an expressive query and programming language called q

kdb+ is a database. You can use it through interfaces such as ODBC, or from Python, but its power and performance are best accessed through its own language, q.

Q is a general-purpose programming language. You can write programs for anything in q.

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Last modified 22 January 2025

KDB+

A timeseries columnar database and language (Q).