KX enables fintech company to achieve
10x performance at 1/5th of cost 

This fintech start-up was created in 2016 with the vision to create an industry standard for FX TCA, a rigorous pre-trade and post-trade analysis.

To search for the best database for its new fintech system. The requirements included having to be flexible, interoperable, backed by a powerful query language, utilize cheaper storage, and be fast.

The CTO evaluated a popular document store, a fully managed time-series database, a key value store, a data warehouse, a popular database with extensive querying capabilities, and a distributed database.

The KX database matched his needs perfectly and integrated well with the company’s systems, was manageable, highly performant and cost effective, delivering a 75% cost saving.