KDB-X and KX Analyst

I’m just coming back to KDB/q after a long break, having heard about it on Array Cast.

I used to use the personal edition with KDB Analyst to plot charts, but I cannot seem to determine if:

  • KDB Analyst is still available for personal use
  • If it’s compatible with KDB-X?

In addition, Array Cast mentioned package management, not sure if that’s the intended route now.

Thanks again for making this available for general use; nothing gives more joy than an afternoon of KDB/q!

KX Analyst was never available for public use. KX Developer was and still in which includes most of the features from Analyst. You can download it here: KX Developer.

Note: It is not supported directly on Windows 11. Use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to run it on a Windows 11 machine.

It has not been updating specifically for KDB-X but it should run just fine with it.

Most of the changes in KDB-X are additions which would not break existing code. See KDB-X Release Notes for the full list of changes.

Some other options are:

  1. KX Visual Studio Code Extension
  2. Jupyter Notebooks integration for KDB-X Python