Does kdb+ support multiple cores and/or multi-threading?
Yes, both are built right in to the system and this makes kdb+ extraordinarily fast when compared with traditional applications, as it can make full use of all available cores. Also, the application developer does not have to write any special thread-aware code to use these facilities. The number of cores available to kdb+ is specified in a startup parameter, while kdb+ uses multi-threading in a number of different ways: • parallel access to data partitions in large historical databases.
