absurdcomputing's comments

Hey! I really liked your D3 training. Was very useful at the time!

I agree that the vertical integration capability of kdb+/Q is amazing, and it is beyond comprehension why Kx themselves don’t effectively leverage it. Kx Platform appears to be mostly written in Java, and the API’s callable from Q are not very well documented. My team and I find the dashboards product is difficult to use, and there are some nasty bugs that cause frequent editor crashes for dashboards of moderate complexity. Q is so feature rich that it would be a blast to write web applications in, but instead we’re forced to use this drag and drop editor if we want to make something available to our users.

I think Shakti could become a viable competitor to Kx if they included libraries that handle some common enterprise usecases, such as load balancing, user permissions and SSO. I have no doubt that an experienced K programmer could whip this up in a week or two, but in my experience a sufficiently large enterprise will specify that all these capabilities need to be implemented before they let the product in the door.