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Kdb+ provides data scientists and application developers with a centralized high-performance time series analytics solution for real-time and multi-petabyte historical datasets. Kdb+ is commonly used in high-frequency trading for data and analytics storage, processing, and retrieval of large datasets at high speed. The database can handle billions of records in milliseconds, which is perfect for time series data. Kdb+ is an in-memory column-oriented database based on the concept of ordered lists.
The architecture of the kdb+ database is described below:
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