KX Community Edition

latenightcoding wrote: post #4

With the rise of LLM-coding do these specialized/niche languages lose their edge? (i.e: prototyping speed, job security, etc)

In this case it is a little beyond specialized and niche. It is right to left too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44498766

Re: KX Community Edition

#6

Post by starkparker » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 6:06 PM UTC

Context for people lacking it:

- Blog announcement: https://kx.com/blog/introducing-kdb-x-public-preview/

- Product landing page: https://kx.com/products/introducing-kdb-x-public-preview/

Re: KX Community Edition

#7

Post by AUnterrainer » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 6:07 PM UTC

latenightcoding wrote: post #4

With the rise of LLM-coding do these specialized/niche languages lose their edge? (i.e: prototyping speed, job security, etc)

No LLM can write KDB yet

Re: KX Community Edition

#8

Post by alyandon » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 6:07 PM UTC

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.

Re: KX Community Edition

#9

Post by willvarfar » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 6:11 PM UTC

fidotron wrote: post #3

> A quick look at the product licensing page reveals that KDB-X gives you up to 16GB of RAM, 4 secondary threads per process, and 8 IPC connections.

It also says it is not for production use.

Re: KX Community Edition

#10

Post by KerrAvon » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 6:15 PM UTC

starkparker wrote: post #6

Context for people lacking it: - Blog announcement: https://kx.com/blog/introducing-kdb-x-public-preview/ - Product landing page: https://kx.com/products/introducing-kdb-x-public-preview/

for anyone else looking for tl;dr on WTF KDB actually is, it's buried in the AI slop marketing text in the blog announcement: "KDB-X is […] both a programming language and a database."