KDB+/Q

neosephiroth · June 1st, 2014, 1:02 pm

Hi everybody!A quick, maybe strange , question:If you ask someone working in an hedge fund "Have you ever heard or used Q /KDB+ ?"And he, then, answers: "No, we don't use it. We use Octave."Do you think he actually knows about Q /KDB+, or not?Because it would have been an OK answer to the question: "Have you ever heard or used MatLab or Mathematica?"Isn't Q /KDB+ a database primarly? And not a numerical computing environment (like MatLab, Mathematica and Octave)?Thanks

kziemski · June 1st, 2014, 4:50 pm

Yes but db's primary use is toward analysis.He's saying the firm has built around octave and their not going to want to transition to another language environment

neosephiroth · June 1st, 2014, 4:56 pm

thank you!

ktang · June 22nd, 2014, 12:11 am

I dont think he knows anything about kdb+/q.And yes you can use kdb+ both as a db and as a numerical computing environment.Kim