The KX Blog

Introducing KDB-X Package Manager

Discover how qmamba, the KDB-X package manager, installs q modules, resolves dependencies, isolates environments, and enables repeatable deployments.

By Daniel Walsh • 2 October, 2026

Financial services

The Agentic Ante: Speed Is the Price of Entry for Capital Markets AI

Agentic AI in capital markets has to work inside a shrinking decision window. Ashok Reddy explores why low-latency data access, temporal context, and a fast reasoning loop are essential if AI decisions are to remain useful when they arrive.

By Ashok Reddy • 30 September, 2026

Financial services

When CPUs Write IOUs: How GPU Acceleration Can Buy Back Your Analytics Window

Analytics workloads are growing while processing windows are shrinking. Learn where GPU acceleration can relieve CPU bottlenecks and create valuable operational headroom.

By Ahmed Siddiqui • 29 September, 2026

Developer

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