kdb Insights Financial Services Industry Accelerators Overview
This page provides an overview of the kdb Insights Financial Services Industry (FSI) Accelerators.
The kdb Insights Financial Services Industry (FSI) Accelerators bring fast outcomes to your FSI projects and implementations. kdb Insights FSI Accelerators are built around common FSI use cases that combine scalable market data ingest with highly performant analytics, you can take immediate advantage of kdb Insights Enterprise's power to turbocharge your business.
Transform your kdb Insights Enterprise installation into a fully functioning solution that you can customize and extend in minutes, not months with:
- Out-of-the-box performant reference solution architectures
- Feed handlers and ingest pipelines for industry standard real-time market data vendors
- Ingest pipelines for industry standard historical or batch data sources
- Performant, extendable database schemas
- Common asset-class specific analytics and APIs
- Templated query and visualization examples, catering for:
- Advanced dashboarding needs with Insights Views
- Python notebooks for quant and data science use cases
- REST API examples for fast interop with downstream applications
FSI Accelerators use a common underlying library that provides its analytic APIs, refer to the FSI Accelerator Library for more information.
Available FSI Accelerators
- KX Order Book Building for ICE® Data - Realtime data ingest and order book building for ICE (The Intercontinental Exchange) Futures
- KX Fixed Income Bond Screener for ICE® Data - The KX Fixed Income Bond Screener Accelerator ingests realtime, historic, and reference data from ICE® (The Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.®) Fixed Income and Data Services and persists them in kdb Insights Enterprise
- KX Flow - The KX Flow Accelerator ingests FX price and order information from KX Flow and persists it in kdb Insights Enterprise
- KX Equity Analytics for ICE® Data - Equity order analytics with data from ICE Replay
- KX Equity Analytics for Bloomberg Data License - Equity order analytics with data from Bloomberg Data License
- KX Accelerator for Bloomberg B-PIPE - Realtime data ingest with EMRS entitlements for Bloomberg B-PIPE
Feature highlights
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The FSI Accelerator Library contains the following APIs:
- getTicks - Finance specific functionality for data retrieval and request-reply enrichment
- getStats - Aggregation and windowing support on top of
getTicks - getBars - Aggregation and windowing on top of pre-calculated (EOD) barred data for improved performance R
- Cancellations and Corrections support for query results
Asset class features
- FX features for
getTicks
Customization & operations
- API Configuration for
getTicks - Customization & adding analytics to
getStats - Error Glossary for the FSI Accelerator
Latest versions and compatibilities
The table below lists the kdb Insights Enterprise versions along with the corresponding versions of each Accelerator.
| kdb Insights Enterprise | ICE Equities Analytics | ICE Order Book | ICE Fixed Income | Bloomberg B-PIPE | Bloomberg Equities Analytics | KX Flow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.9 | - | 1.1.0 | 1.0.0 | - | - | 1.0.0 |
| 1.10 | 1.0.1 | 1.1.1 | 1.1.0 | - | 1.0.0 | 1.1.0 |
| 1.11 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1.12 | 1.1.1 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.0 | 1.0.0 | 1.1.3 | - |
| 1.13 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.0 | 1.1.0 | 1.2.0 | TBC |
| 1.13.2 | 1.3.0 | 1.3.0 | 1.3.1 | 1.2.0 | 1.3.3 | TBC |
| 1.14.2 | 1.5.0 | 1.4.2 | 1.4.2 | 1.3.1 | 1.5.0 | TBC |
For more information, version history, and the corresponding fsi-lib versions, refer to the individual release notes pages.
Combined accelerator packages
Some compatible accelerators are available as pre-combined packages. These bundles include the underlying versions noted in the table below.
| Package | Underlying packages | Fsi-lib version | kdb Insights Enterprise version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomberg 1.0.0 | Bloomberg B-PIPE, Bloomberg Equities Analytics | 1.3.2 | 1.13.2 |
| Bloomberg 1.1.0 | Bloomberg B-PIPE, Bloomberg Equities Analytics | 1.3.3 | 1.14 |
| Bloomberg 1.2.0 | Bloomberg B-PIPE, Bloomberg Equities Analytics | 1.3.3 | 1.14 |
| Bloomberg 1.3.0 | Bloomberg B-PIPE, Bloomberg Equities Analytics | 1.3.4 | 1.14 |
| Bloomberg 1.4.0 | Bloomberg B-PIPE, Bloomberg Equities Analytics | 1.3.4 | 1.14 |