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by gigatexal 746 days ago
Totally out of the loop here, what's KDB?
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Interesting. I’ll take a look
It’s a language, and more importantly execution environment, used by financial firms.

It’s been around since the 90s and has built up a level of trust that’s incomparable.

It’s also a completely closed language. You have to pay an insanely high license fee to use it.

AFAICT, the official name is “kdb+”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdb%2B

Thanks for asking. The only kdb I'm familiar with is the FreeBSD kernel debugger: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/developers-handbook/kernel...