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Re: KX Community Edition

#31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No LLM can write KDB yet

As most KDB code is proprietary, one wonders if there's even enough available code to train/steal from.

KDB code is as proprietary as java, python, C++ code found at other financial institutions. What's proprietary is the Q language. not the code you write with it

Re: KX Community Edition

#33
post #8

I just tried to install the community edition and it fails claiming the license key generated by the site is invalid. Not a great onboarding experience.

do you have a previous community edition installed? I ran into this than scanned up and saw some warnings about clearing your environment vars & re-sourcing your profile so it no longer points to the old QLIC/QHOME

Nope - fresh install.

Re: KX Community Edition

#34
post #15

TL;DR TOS Summary of the KX Community Edition License Agreement: Key Points: What you get: - Free license to use KX software for personal or internal business purposes only - No support or maintenance services included - Software provided "as is" without warranties Major restrictions: - NO commercial use - Cannot sell, distribute, or monetize any product that uses or depends on this software - Cannot bundle it with c…

Just adding, this is completely the opposite to what the original blogspam article says. I think the references to the "Poisoned Chalice", should be updated to replace Macbeth with KX. The promise, (and delivery) of a hyper efficient way to analyse data that kdb/q gives you will always lead to final regret.

Re: KX Community Edition

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As most KDB code is proprietary, one wonders if there's even enough available code to train/steal from.

KDB code is as proprietary as java, python, C++ code found at other financial institutions. What's proprietary is the Q language. not the code you write with it

I think what they mean is that there is less publicly available kdb code for llms to be trained on

Re: KX Community Edition

#39

What would be the closest open-source equivalent for this? Influx?

QuestDB. It is built for finance workloads (can be also used for other timeseries data, like energy, or aerospace, but has heavy optimizations for common finance data patterns), it is very performant, it has been in used for years at large finance entities, and it is Apache 2.0.

Full disclosure: I am a Developer Advocate at QuestDB.

The Open Source edition does not limit any commercial use or the size of the machine you can install, as per the Apache 2.0 license terms.

If you want more enterprise-y options, like single sign on, or RBAC, there is an Enterprise edition. But Open Source is as performant as the Enterprise version. Enterprise offers also things like replication and TLS on all endpoints, which can be somehow replicated in Open Source with manual sharding or proxies.

Re: KX Community Edition

#40
post #22

Free as in freedoom? Still not. So, klong for prototyping, and a libre build of 'j' for everything else.

When does this cost money now?

It's not about money. It's about being able to run it everywhere for any purpose, even commercial ones.
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