Get started¶
the free 32-bit version of kdb+ for macOS, Linux, or Windows for non-commercial use
Tutorials for beginners¶
| Install | The basics | Datatypes | Lists |
| Functions | Dictionaries | Tables I | Tables II |
Database tutorials¶
- First steps
- Run your first query.
- In-memory queries
- Build a more complex dataset in memory and perform some queries and joins on it. The dataset is from an imaginary desktop PC monitoring and helpdesk support system.
- On-disk queries
- Download a set of scripts to build and run queries against a large on-disk database. The dataset is from an imaginary smart-meter network. It includes a basic HTML5 Business Intelligence tool which queries the database directly.
- Introduction to kdb+
- Q for Mortals, Chapter 14 by Jeffry A. Borror. “Roughly speaking, kdb+ is what happens when q tables are persisted and then mapped back into memory for operations.”
Books¶
Q for Mortals¶
Version 3 by Jeffry A. Borror, available from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Covers up to kdb+ V3.3. If you are a new kdb+ user, this is the book for you!
HTML edition now online
Q Tips¶
Fast, scalable and maintainable kdb+ by Nick Psaris, available from Amazon.co.uk.
There is information that if you were learning by yourself, would take years to work out.
See the Archive for older documents.
Please send comments on tutorials to librarian@kx.com.