Having worked with both Oracle and KDB, the thing to understand is that KDB (or K or Q) is a fully fledged language... you can do whatever you like really. If

Having worked with both Oracle and KDB, the thing to understand is that KDB (or K or Q) is a fully fledged language... you can do whatever you like really. If you want something distributed you just design something yourself and build it. It's not like Oracle where it is all opaque and buried in query plans and the like.