KX Dashboards Architecture

Presentation

👤 User

Browser / Desktop App

Dashboard Viewer

Dashboard Builder

NLX Chat Interface

Admin / Dev Tools

⬡ KX Dashboards UI

📊 ChartGL 🗃 Datagrid 🗺 GeoMap 📈 Flex Grid ⏱ Timeseries 🔢 Pivot Table 🤖 NLX Chat ✨ Template Gallery 🎨 Themes 🧩 Custom Components

Drag & Drop Builder Column Filtering Property Bindings Global Properties Generate & Edit Mode Multi-provider AI Publishable Skills Connection Testing

HTTP / WebSocket

REST Queries

Session / Auth

Middleware

⚙ App Server

Tomcat / Java runtime

DeltaClientLib

Session management

Auth & permissions

WebSocket broker

🎛 KX Control

Process orchestration

Connection registry

Workflow management

Audit logging

Startup ordering

🔀 Query Router (QR)

Load balancing

Request routing

Sub-request handling

Multi-target queries

QR cluster management

q / qSQL / WebSocket

KXI / REST / gRPC

REST / API

Data

🗄 kdb+

Tick Plant (TP)

Real-time ingest & pub/sub

Real-time DB (RDB)

Today's in-memory data

Historical DB (HDB)

On-disk partitioned tables

Query Interface

q / qSQL / WebSocket streaming

Direct kdb+ connections

✦ 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 · C++ · 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-performance analytics