Is Kx just a financial markets vendor?
The primary market in the early years was financial tick databases – this was the use area that first saw huge increases in data volumes. But kdb+ is now seen in very different markets. For example, finance people use it for risk management, regulatory compliance and surveillance, and client services. IT departments have picked up the technology, and use it as a central data repository for many other applications, such as monitoring hardware performance and network throughput with performance measurements calculated in nanoseconds. There is also increasing adoption in non-financial markets, such as telecoms, web services and government agencies.
