Project Charter

The kdb+ project will curate common standards, tools, and libraries to facilitate collaborative development, ease artifact reuse, and improve usability and administration of kdb+ software in enterprise deployments.

Group Information

• Mailing list: data-tech-kdb@finos.org (web archive, subscribe by email)

• GitHub repositories:

  • https://github.com/finos/kdb

  • https://github.com/finos/kdb-studio

• Project monthly call:

  • Schedule:

    • Group meets Every Second Monday of Each Month at 9:30am EST / 2:30pm UK

    • Meeting link: https://finos.webex.com/finos/j.php?MTID=me61719ca3c3295a7cc76762d78392bc3

    • Meeting number: 2704 417 0390

    • Join by phone: 

      • +1-415-655-0003 US Toll

      • +44-20319-88141 UK Toll

      • Access code: 2704 417 0390

• Agenda: https://github.com/finos/kdb/labels/meeting

• KDB Metrics on FINOS

  • https://metrics.finos.org/goto/033b15c80f0d08cab70f40f4358932f6

Participation Requirements

(Requirements Approved by DT PMC on June 28, 2019)

• Participants are expected to have:

  • Experience at a FinTech firm that uses kdb+ "at scale":

    • dozens to hundreds of cooperating hosts running q processes

    • dozens to hundreds of users with different access levels to the data

  • Knowledge of the Q programing language.

• Familiarity with Software Development Lifecycle and Separation of Duties is also helpful.

The Team