[throwaway7645]

I wish there was a way to use this at my company without the monstrous price tag. I also wish kdb+ came with much better dashboard support kinda like Tableau...I want to retrieve and mold my data quickly with kdb+'s query language and once it is in the proper form, play with several chart types.

[kthielen]

You might be interested in hobbes, it's free and open source, and we use it with some very large/complex data sets:

https://github.com/Morgan-Stanley/hobbes

The PL is a little different (very similar to Haskell), interoperation with C/C++ is much more direct, and it's also suitable for low-latency applications (where the boxing overhead in K would be unsuitable).

[scottlocklin]

Try Jd; it's almost as good and much cheaper.

http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Jd/Index

[gaius]

The 32-bit edition is free

[icen]

Can't be used commercially.