kdb+
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
2warn against
Nov 11, 2025first mention
Aug 7, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I really do love what kdb is doing”
“I learned so much from the array semantics about how to concisely represent time-series logic”
Quant job in 2007on “Programming in K”
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“May be worth getting a head start on these”
“this is probably the most commercially viable dialect to learn, with the best educational materials”
Caveats and dissent
“KDB does not even qualify on the second requirement”
“I've become disillusioned with kdb.”
Former TorQ useron “TorQ: Kdb+ Production Framework”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
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Also written as Kdb+. Data: kdbplus.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 11
“don’t we have things like k and kdb that are many orders of magnitude faster even than this?”
“I used Q with KDB+ for trading”
“KDB does not even qualify on the second requirement”
“I really do love what kdb is doing”
“I've become disillusioned with kdb.”
“I learned so much from the array semantics about how to concisely represent time-series logic”
“or even q from kdb+/q (kinda like Lisp but without parens)”
“That's similar to how kdb+/q represent nulls and infinities”
“internal kdb”
“May be worth getting a head start on these”
“this is probably the most commercially viable dialect to learn, with the best educational materials”