Blog | KX

Benchmarking KDB-X and KDB-X Python against Polars, DuckDB, ClickHouse, and Pandas

What the KX NYSE TAQ benchmark numbers actually say about memory need, query expressiveness and speed, and what we learned implementing 84 capital markets queries in six engines

By Ferenc Bodon Ph.D • 10 September, 2026

The Flight Recorder for Capital Markets AI: Why Trust Must Be Temporal

Temporal AI gives capital markets firms the time-aware data, traceability, and governance needed to understand, trust, and defend AI-generated decisions across trading, risk, and compliance.

By Ashok Reddy • 19 August, 2026

How Coding Agents and Frontier Models Reshaped What’s Possible in q

See how coding agents and frontier LLMs perform on KX’s Q Evaluation Harness (QEval) for q code generation, and where experts still lead.

By Scott Rich • 10 August, 2026

Introducing the KX Benchmark Dashboard

A tour of the interactive dashboard (benchmark.kx.com) that lets you slice and dice the KX NYSE TAQ benchmark results by solution, hardware, thread count, and query characteristics authors