KX Dashboards Direct — Architecture

Presentation

👤 User

Browser / Desktop App

Dashboard Viewer

Dashboard Builder

NLX Chat Interface

Local Dev / Prototyping

⬡ KX Dashboards UI

📊 ChartGL 🗃 Datagrid 🗺 GeoMap 📈 Flex Grid 🔢 Pivot Table ⏱ Timeseries 🎨 Themes ⚙ Global Properties 🤖 NLX Chat ✨ Template Gallery

Drag & Drop Builder Column Filtering Property Bindings Generate & Edit Mode Connection Testing Publishable Skills Multi-provider AI Dashboard JSON Export

HTTP / WebSocket

Direct q / qSQL

WebSocket stream

Query Pipeline

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No middleware layer. Dashboards Direct connects to kdb+ processes without KX Control, App Server, or Query Router. Queries go from the UI to kdb+ in a single hop — reducing latency, removing infrastructure overhead, and simplifying deployment.

Step 1

🔌 Connection

Direct kdb+ IPC / WebSocket

No App Server or QR broker

Host + port configured in UI

Connection tested on save

All components

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Step 2

📤 Query Execution

q / qSQL sent to kdb+ process

Synchronous or async

Server-side data reduction

Virtual queries supported*

All components

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Step 3

📥 Deserialization

q binary → JS objects

Type mapping applied

Data formatted for component

Delivered to renderer

Datagrid (standard), PivotGrid, GeoMap, Filters

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SKIPPED

Step 3 — Skipped

⚡ Raw Pass-through

No deserialization step

Raw data applied directly

Lower CPU at large volumes

⚠ Virtual queries disabled

ChartGL · Datagrid (Experimental mode)

q / qSQL — direct IPC

KXI / REST

REST / API

Data

🗄 kdb+ direct

Tick Plant (TP)

Real-time ingest & pub/sub

Real-time DB (RDB)

Today's in-memory data

Historical DB (HDB)

On-disk partitioned tables

Custom q Processes

Any user-defined q process

Direct host:port connection

✦ KDB-X

kdb Insights Enterprise

Cloud-native kdb+ platform

Streaming API (KXI)

First-class streaming support

REST / gRPC Endpoints

HTTP query interface

Multi-language Clients

PyKX · Java · kdb.ai

⬡ Other Sources

🤖 meta.AI / LLMs

NLX model provider

Multi-model support

🗃 SQL / REST

External DB connectors

JSON REST endpoints

🧠 kdb.ai

Vector similarity search

AI-powered queries

⚡ kdb GPU

GPU-accelerated compute

High-perf analytics

Dashboards Direct vs Full KX Delta Platform

⚡ Dashboards Direct

✅No KX Control, App Server, or Query Router required

✅Single-hop: UI → kdb+ directly via IPC / WebSocket

✅Rapid local setup — ideal for prototyping and dev

✅ChartGL & Datagrid raw pass-through (no deserialization)

⚠️No load balancing or multi-process routing

⚠️No enterprise workflow orchestration

🏢 Full KX Delta Platform

✅Full middleware: App Server + KX Control + Query Router

✅Load balancing across multiple kdb+ instances

✅Enterprise workflow orchestration & audit logging

✅Multi-tenant, RBAC, SSO, LDAP

⚠️Requires full platform deployment & configuration

⚠️Higher infrastructure overhead