kdb+

kdb+

7 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
kdb+	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	kdb+ is a time series database from kx headquartered in Palo Alto, California, a division of First Derivatives.	N/A

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kdb+

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kdb+
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	kdb+
Considered Both Products	kdb+ Verified User Strategist Chose kdb+ Cheaper, more commonly used in industry. Simpler to start using, complications of the language aside. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Strategist Chose kdb+ It is much faster and more flexible than traditional SQL databases. Incentivized Helpful? Ye Tian Quant Strategist Chose kdb+ vertica, oracle, streambase, Hadoop Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose kdb+ Python is very commonly used for large data analysis and in general is much easier to pickup than kdb+. The biggest drawback of kdb+ is the learning curve. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Time series Pro File based Pro Easy to maintain
Top Cons	Minus New users Minus Ability to write Minus Backwards compatibility

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User Ratings
	kdb+
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	3.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	1.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	kdb+
Likelihood to Recommend	Kx kdb is well suited for real time tick data and time series analytics. Incentivized ROHAN MANE AVP Read full review
Pros	Kx Time series analysis. The built-in vector operations are extremely fast. Also with the q language you can code up any customized analytical ideas quickly. The database are all file based, very easy to maintain. Very solid and fast interface to websocket, so you can interface with javascript easily. Incentivized Ye Tian Quant Strategist Read full review
Cons	Kx Run time error message readability, particularly for new users. Backwards compatibility between versions. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Kx switching costs Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Kx its ok Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Kx We don't use it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Kx Python is very commonly used for large data analysis and in general is much easier to pickup than kdb+. The biggest drawback of kdb+ is the learning curve. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Kx It perfectly solves most of our real time tick data needs. Finding good kdb resources is slightly difficult. Also new people trying to learn kdb experience a relatively longer learning curve. Incentivized ROHAN MANE AVP Read full review
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