kdb+

Warning

Tier 2 support: Connection to kdb+ is Experimental and not fully supported

DSS has experimental support for reading tables from kdb+

Installing support

In order to enable support for kdb+, you must install the “kdb+” plugin. Please follow instructions from Installing plugins

Creating a kdb+ connection

  • Create a new “Other databases (JDBC)” connection

  • In driver class, use “kx.jdbc.jdbc”

  • In URL, use “jdbc:q:HOST:PORT

  • In Dialect, use “kdb+”

You can now use kdb+ as a normal SQL database and create SQL datasets on it. Note that you can either write direct SQL or q code by prefixing your query by q)