There seem to be echoes of what I've seen in kdb+ (http://kx.com/Products/kdb+.php http://kx.com/Products/kdb+.php) in this offering from IBM. I know that kdb+

There seem to be echoes of what I've seen in kdb+ (http://kx.com/Products/kdb+.php http://kx.com/Products/kdb+.php) in this offering from IBM. I know that kdb+ is an entrenched part of the software developed internally at financial companies to deal with huge streaming datasets Any ideas how they compare? System S and kdb+ sound very similar, both offering a solution to development centered around streaming datasets with extremely low latencies, both with their own programming language.