1. Kx Technology Overview
Austin Data Meetup
Fintan Quill
24 October 2016

2. TCO
Software
Hardware
Operational

3. Hardware Storage Memory Parallelism Compression Hyper-Converged
File System
Memory
NVDIMM/3D X-Point
Parallelism
Vector Instructions
Multi-Core/Multi-Proc/Multi-Machine

4. Time-Series Analytics at the Edge Streams Micro batches IOT
Structured/Semi-Structured
Analytics at the Edge
Small Footprint
ARM/Intel Quark
Streams
Micro batches

5. About Kx
23 Years
Finance, Utilities, Pharma, Telco, IOT & Software
Subsidiary of First Derivatives Plc (AIM: FDP)

6. Kx Clients

8. Kdb+
High-Performance Database & Analytic Programming System
Streaming, Real-Time & Historical Data
32/64-bit versions

9. Features
Standard OS & Hardware
In-Database Analytics
Compression/Encryption
Parallelism
Interfaces

10. Typical Architecture

11. q language
Vector/Array
Functional
Query
Interpreted
Time-Series

12. Demo

13. Demo
25TB uncompressed New York Stock Exchange Data
Over 1 trillion records
Spinning Disk (14K RPM)
8 Haswell Cores
Queries run fresh from disk

15. Dashboards for Kx
Big data support out-of-the-box
Real-time streaming support
Easy to use, no programming experience required
Compatible with all modern browsers
Drag-and-drop interface, with over 35 ready-made components
Embed third-party or custom plugins with HTML editor

16. Analyst For Kx

17. Thank you
Fintan