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KX is a high-performance analytics solution designed to help organizations accelerate data and AI-driven innovation, enabling them to transition into AI-first enterprises. This platform specializes in time series and vector data analytics, offering a robust environment that caters to a range of industries, including investment banking, aerospace and defense, life sciences, telecommunications, and advanced manufacturing. KX serves as a crucial tool for businesses aiming to leverage data for strategic decision-making, making it a versatile choice for various sectors. The primary audience for KX encompasses line-of-business leaders, developers, data scientists, and data engineers who require sophisticated analytics capabilities to create high-performance, data-driven applications. With its unmatched speed and scalability, KX allows users to efficiently process large volumes of data, whether in cloud environments, on-premises, or at the edge. This flexibility ensures that organizations can integrate KX technology into their existing workflows seamlessly, enhancing their analytical capabilities without causing disruptions to ongoing operations. KX distinguishes itself in the analytics landscape through its independently benchmarked performance, recognized as the fastest available on the market. This speed is vital for businesses that depend on real-time data insights to inform their decision-making processes. By enabling users to uncover richer, actionable insights quickly, KX facilitates faster and more informed choices, driving competitive advantage and transformative growth. Its ability to manage complex data sets and deliver insights promptly is particularly advantageous for industries that operate in fast-paced environments, where timely information is critical. Key features of KX include advanced time series and vector data analytics capabilities, which enable efficient management and analysis of extensive data volumes. Furthermore, KX integrates seamlessly with popular analytics tools, enhancing their performance and allowing users to maximize their existing investments. The platform's architecture is designed for high performance, ensuring that organizations can scale their analytics operations as needed without sacrificing speed or efficiency. With a global presence across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, KX is trusted by leading organizations to spearhead their data and AI initiatives. By providing a powerful analytics solution, KX not only enhances operational efficiency but also fosters a culture of innovation, empowering businesses to remain competitive in an increasingly data-driven world.

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KX is maker of kdb+, a time series and vector database, independently benchmarked as the fastest on the market. It can process and analyze time series, historical and vector data at unmatched speed and scale, empowering developers, data scientists, and data engineers to build high-performance data-driven applications and turbo-charge their favorite analytics tools in the cloud, on-premise, or at the edge. For more info visit www.kx.com.

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Our mission is to accelerate the speed of data and AI-driven business innovation enabling customers to transform into real-time, intelligent enterprises. Built for the most demanding data environments, our Data Timehouse™ platform is trusted by the world's top investment banks and hedge funds, and leading companies in the life and health sciences, semiconductor, telecommunications, and manufacturing industries.

At the heart of our technology is the kdb+ time series and vector database, independently benchmarked as the fastest on the market. It can process and analyze time series, historical and vector data at unmatched speed and scale, empowering developers, data scientists, and data engineers to build high-performance data-driven applications and turbo-charge their favorite analytics tools in the cloud, on-premise, or at the edge.

Ultimately, our technology enables the discovery of richer, actionable insights for faster decision making which drives competitive advantage and transformative growth for our customers. KX operates from more than 15 offices across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

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Yiorgos [George] A.
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What do you like best about KX?

The teseness of the language. It allows for expressing a lot in the monitor area Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KX?

The license that I have to renew yearly. I mean come on! I am a hobby user. I definitely do not run it daily and it is a product you want to gain popularity. Make-it-easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KX solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am not solving any business problem for my employer with Kx. What I am trying to do though is to make it a replacement for Prometheus. I hate PromQL. So in an ideal world I want a prometheus remote_write API to store in a Kx and be able to run queries there, that are longer than the 15 days time span that Prometheus is optimized for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KX?

- You can feel that the product is made with love. The syntax is very powerful, so you can write short statements instead of long SQL queries

- Speed is insane.

- Good integration with other technologies and tools like python and Java

- The ecosystem is just nice, everything is in place, language, documentation, vs code plugin, own IDE (KX developer), dashboards.

- Good community usually questions on StackOverflow answered on the same day, also they have a forum, free courses and a Slack community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KX?

- Not so many companies use it, although it is very popular in the finance sector

- It requires knowledge, time, and dedication, but which tool is not?

- No so many open source projects to learn from Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KX solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Getting and storing large amount of market data

- Storing all analytics about usage of the market data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KX?

The thing i like about kx is the platform supports high performance stream processing which makes it very beneficial for many industries which require real time decision making especially in financial domain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KX?

Its steep learning curve for beginners. Difficulty in code debugging when you've just started. But it gets easier when you get good understanding.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KX solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kx has helped with high frequency event processing and real time decision making and providing immediate insights solving problem to detect fraudulent transactions in banks and executing trades with low latency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KX?

I use KX's kx-dashboard product to create user reports/dashboards , I found it very easy to create the user reports / dashboard using ox-dashboard.

In our organisation we have moved from very wel know dashboard creation product to kx-dashboard . As we found it is faster and has few better functionalities like breadcrum and pivote data grid.

I have also created this https://lnkd.in/dWFzFtCe video to showcase how can we create real-time dashboard using ox product .. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KX?

Steep Learning curve .

For learning KX kdb it does take some time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KX solving and how is that benefiting you?

Benefits

1)Quickest way to create user dashboard

2) faster way to analyse real time and EOD data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KX?

KX has been attentive to the client's needs and will accomodate client's demands and requests to the best of their abilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KX?

As a seasoned developer in the software industry, KX can drive the core standards for the client to level up, especially for clients lack expertise in the specialisd field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KX solving and how is that benefiting you?

KX is helping my firm in the Surveillance System. My firm is taking in trading data from more than 50 platforms and most of them had to be integrated into the surveillance system for monitoring purposes. KX has the capability to take in the data across the multitude of platforms in specific format. They also have the market abuse scenarios ready for implementation upon selection by the client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KX?

it is complex but its very very fast and efficient for columner data manupulation and aggregation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KX?

it has a very steep learning curve and takes a long time to discover and write most efficient code. it being a niche product also limits the amount to help you can find on the internet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KX solving and how is that benefiting you?

Developing real time risk engine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KX?

KDB/Q is a great programming language, very powerful, after you learn the syntax you becoming highly efficient in solving problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KX?

Nothing really. I would love to see a bigger user community but that's about it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KX solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fast data manipulation, streaming and storage. Allows to analyse data like it's hard to do otherwise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KX?

- Easy to write complicated logic with minimal code

- Has built in query language plus analytical functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KX?

- Not everyone uses it and can sometimes be difficutlt to integrate with other application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KX solving and how is that benefiting you?

Large data capture made possible.

Run queries and generate reports on large amounts of data quickly.

Investigage data quality issues quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KX?

Vectorized nature and the power of the product to crunch data sets utilising the hardware efficiently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KX?

The documentation and community collaboration was not great in past but has improved massively Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KX solving and how is that benefiting you?

Trade and quite data analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about KX?

The tool is extremely fast and efficient, and makes warehoused data easily accessable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about KX?

As a user with limited knowledge of kx products, it's very hard to learn initially. Limited resources online makes the barrier to entry even more significant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is KX solving and how is that benefiting you?

Providing us with pre and post trade analytics to optimise our e-trading. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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