KX (kdb+, KDB-X, OneTick)
Data intelligence and temporal AI platform for capital markets
KX provides time-series and vector database technology for capital markets, built on the kdb+ engine. The platform captures, sequences, analyzes, and acts on real-time and historical market data, giving AI models and agents time and context for decisions. Products include KDB-X (database engine), OneTick Market Data (curated tick data across 250+ venues), OneTick Cloud (managed analytics), and OneTick Surveillance (trade surveillance and compliance).
KDB-X unifies time-series, vector, and AI workloads in a single runtime, supporting Python, SQL, and q, with vector search, streaming data, GPU acceleration, and Parquet-native storage. OneTick Market Data delivers normalized, point-in-time tick data across 250+ venues with L1–L3 depth, corporate actions applied, and delivery via cloud, API, or file. OneTick Cloud provides managed analytics for backtesting, transaction cost analysis, and algo development. OneTick Surveillance offers cross-asset monitoring with tick-level audit trails, explainable ML alerts, and out-of-the-box regulatory scenarios. KDB-X is available free for commercial use through the Community Edition; other products are offered through demos and trials.
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