[R-SIG-Finance] kdb and q?

Ajay Shah ajayshah at mayin.org
Sat Jun 19 19:08:19 CEST 2010


I wonder what the R community thinks about kdb and the q language.

A person from Morgan Stanley says that R is just great as a PL but for
the performance issues faced in finance with intra-day data and
real-time analysis, R is not able to keep up and they are doing a lot
of things with kdb and q.

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