{"id":111043,"date":"2015-01-19T20:31:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T20:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timestored.com\/b\/?p=111043"},"modified":"2015-01-19T20:32:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T20:32:10","slug":"open-source-kdb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timestored.com\/b\/open-source-kdb\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Sourced kdb+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a world overran with open source big data solutions is kdb+ going to be left behind? I hope not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Every few weeks someone comes to me with a big data problem often with a half-done mongoDB\/NoSQL solution that they &#8220;want a little help with&#8221;. Usually after looking at it I think to myself<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I could solve this in 20 minutes with 5 lines of q code&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But how do I tell someone they should use a system which may end up costing them \u00a31,000s per core in licensing costs. Yes it&#8217;s great that there&#8217;s a free 32-bit trial version but the risk that you may end up needing the 64-bit is too great a risk.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"float: left; margin: 15px;\" alt=\"kdb+ vs mongoDB database popularity\" src=\"\/images\/mongodb-vs-kdb-popularity.png\" width=\"393\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Given the ever-increasing number of NoSQL solutions and in particular the rising popularity of Hadoop, R, python and MongoDB it&#8217;s not hard to see that open-source is taking over the world. Right now kdb+ still has the edge, that it&#8217;s faster, sleeker, sexier..but I don&#8217;t think that will save it in the long run. <b>The power of open-source is that it let&#8217;s everyone contribute, witness the 100&#8217;s of libraries available for R, the 1000&#8217;s of javascript frameworks.<\/b> The truly sad thing is that it&#8217;s not always the best underlying technology that wins. A 1000 amateurs creating a vibrant ecosystem of plug-ins, add-ons, tutorials&#8230; can beat other technologies through sheer force of numbers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>APL was a great language yet it remains relegated to history while PHP flourishes.<\/li>\n<li>PostgreSQL was technically superior to MySQL yet MySQL is deployed everywhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>I believe kdb+ is the best solution to a large number of &#8220;big data&#8221; problems (small data to kdb+), When you stop and think, time-series data is everywhere, open sourcing kdb+ would open up entirely new sectors to kdb+ and I hope it&#8217;s a step kx take before it&#8217;s too late.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:120%\">What do you think?<\/span> Leave your comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world overran with open source big data solutions is kdb+ going to be left behind? I hope not&#8230; Every few weeks someone comes to me with a big data problem often with a half-done mongoDB\/NoSQL solution that they &#8220;want a little help with&#8221;. Usually after looking at it I think to myself &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[2,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timestored.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timestored.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timestored.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timestored.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timestored.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111043"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.timestored.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111065,"href":"https:\/\/www.timestored.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111043\/revisions\/111065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timestored.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timestored.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timestored.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}