[geocar]

You don't seem to be aware that Arthur did exactly that:

http://code.kx.com/wiki/Startingkdbplus/qlanguage http://www.kx.com/q/d/kdb+.htm http://www.kx.com/q/d/kdb+1.htm

It's a commercial product and I understand kx does pretty well.

[xorcist]

I was not. Thank you. What is the source of the performance figures?

[geocar]

http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/107499/2014/05/sort/ti...

The list is subscriber-only, and I apologise that the information isn't very easy to get at.