Kx Announces Faster Version of Kdb+ Database Platform

Kx Systems has announced a new, faster version of its Kdb+ high performance database platform. The soon to be released v.2.5 benefits from faster multi-threading as well as a number of other significant enhancements, including DTrace support, optimised intelligent memory allocation, and a number of new interfaces. Now available to customers for final testing and evaluation, v.2.5 will be noticeably faster for queries, especially on large databases.

Support for DTrace, a powerful infrastructure for analysing the allocation and usage of resources on large servers running Solaris, is now available in Kdb+. Some of Kx’s largest clients, including many tier 1 banks, now see support for DTrace as non-negotiable in their core infrastructure products and critical services such as Kdb+.

Kx believes that institutions are facing growing pressures on their resources. A number of enhancements in v.2.5 have been made to help financial institutions address some of those issues. DTrace allows very detailed (low level) monitoring which does not modify code and helps to track down bottlenecks. More efficient threading means that large partitioned databases will be considerably faster. In addition existing interfaces to Java, C#, C, C++ and Excel have been enhanced, while interfaces to R and F# have been added.

[tags] Kx Systems, Kdb+ high performance database platform, Kdb+ v.2.5, DTrace, Solaris, Java, C#, C, C++, Excel, R, F#[/tags]