kdb+ is very cool. Just a single binary, less than 1 MB and yet an extremely fast and powerful tool for analytics. There's a very nice talk on CMU's series of d

kdb+ is very cool. Just a single binary, less than 1 MB and yet an extremely fast and powerful tool for analytics. There's a very nice talk on CMU's series of database videos if you want to know more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiGdfmxEP68 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiGdfmxEP68 And it scores extremely well on the 1 billion taxi drives benchmarks (no cluster but some seriously big machine): http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-kdb.html http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-kdb.html