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KDB+ is incredibly well designed, fast, and very mature. But it has one big problem. At $$$ / year (can't divulge pricing due to NDAs but it's > $10^4 for a ver
by alfalfasprout 10y ago
KDB+ is incredibly well designed, fast, and very mature. But it has one big problem. At $$$ / year (can't divulge pricing due to NDAs but it's > $10^4 for a very modest installation) you're talking about a massive expense if you want any kind of large deployment.
- jnordwick 10y agoI love KDB. When I first started, I hated it... with a fierce passion. I didn't see the point, but I was young and dumb and better looking. When the "Why's that company so big? I can do that in a weekend." article came out last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12626314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12626314 I immediately thought of Kx and KDB and how it is literally the exact opposite. If people only knew how small the firm started with Arthur hacking away seemingly out developing entire corporations they would laugh. "Yeah give me about two years and a dev team of a about 20 then about 10 for QA and we've have something shippable... abother year or two for performance... 5 years we'll be in the hunt." Yeah, we'll this guy over here basically did it in six months with only two others. And it's 100x faster than anything else. Why can't you do that? Given his history too with A+ at Morgan Stanley, it wouldn't be the first time a team of a small handful he was at the core of beat the socks off everybody else either. Some people just have this amazing ability to see simplicity. I've had the pleasure of being around a few people boss like that.