K's successor Q is used heavily in financial systems and costs a bomb. Despite all the big data rage these days, I think Q has been handling very high volumes of data for a while now with some amazing performance.
The 32-bit trial version of kdb+ is available for non-commercial use [1], so I went and downloaded it. The linux zip download is 278KB. Uh ok! I was expecting it to download more stuff (much like Chrome's installation), but nope, that's all there is to it!
The 32-bit trial version of kdb+ is available for non-commercial use [1], so I went and downloaded it. The linux zip download is 278KB. Uh ok! I was expecting it to download more stuff (much like Chrome's installation), but nope, that's all there is to it!
[1]: http://kx.com/software-download.php