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Re: KX Community Edition

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Post by tech_advocate »

alyandon wrote: 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.

If you email preview@kx.com with the details, the team can help resolve the issue and get you up and running.

Re: KX Community Edition

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Post by optymizer »

AUnterrainer wrote: post #17
papercrane wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The website is named 'defcon', like the famous defense conference. Both the defense conference and this are references to the military term DEFCON, that stands for "defense readiness condition". Q here is referring to the Q programming language that is built on top of KDB's K language. The website is a blog and learning resource for the Q language.

Thanks. Looks like at least someone could follow my thought process

If your site requires people to explain your thought process, your presentation has failed, unless your goal is to confuse as many visitors as possible, in which case I wouldn't change a thing.

Re: KX Community Edition

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Post by antmarch »

supercoco9 wrote: post #39
Quitschquat wrote: post #20

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…

QuestDB does not even support nanosecond, not quite suitable for financial funds

Re: KX Community Edition

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Post by AUnterrainer »

supercoco9 wrote: post #39
Quitschquat wrote: post #20

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…

QuestDB is just a DB. What people get wrong about KDB is that it's so much more. It's a programming language with DB capabilities. You can use for real time streaming, in memory DB and on disk DB. You can build your entire analytics on top of that. There's nothing else out there that let's you build and entire framework/platform with just one single tech stack.

Re: KX Community Edition

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Post by quantdev0 »

alyandon wrote: post #33
steveBK123 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I tried on a development machine last week and also saw a licensing error. Testing again today it looks like this has since been fixed.
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