Awesome Q

A curated list of awesome q frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

Inspired by awesome-php.

Repositories at KxSystems are maintained and supported by KX. Other repositories are maintained by their owners.

🎆 Fusion interfaces

The Fusion interface libraries are maintained and supported by KX.

to	source	note
Arrow Parquet	arrowkdb	Using Apache Arrow/Parquet data with kdb+
FFI	ffi	Use foreign functions in q
HDF5	hdf5	Hierarchical Data Format 5
Java	javakdb	Java client for kdb+
Jupyter	jupyterq	Jupyter kernel for kdb+
Kafka	kafka	q client for Apache Kafka
LDAP	ldap	Solace pub/sub brokers
MQTT	mqtt	Message Queuing Telemetry Transport
Prometheus	prometheus-kdb-exporter	Expose metrics to Prometheus
Protocol Buffers	protobuf	Protobuf
Python	embedPy	call Python from q
Python	pyq	call q from Python
R	rkdb	R client for q
Reuters	kdb/c
Solace	solace	Solace pub/sub brokers

Other interfaces

to	source	note
C	KxSystems/kdb	C client for kdb+
C#	kxcontrib/csharpgui	C# GUI
Excel	CharlesSkelton/excelrtd	Microsoft Excel™ client for kdb+
FITS	jpneill/fitsToKdb	access tables in NASA FITS files
Java	CharlesSkelton/jshow
JavaScript		WebSockets
JDBC	CharlesSkelton/babel	query other databases via JDBC
Lua	geocar/qlua	q client for Lua
Mathematica	KxSystems/kdb	Mathematica5 -> Q interface
ODBC		client for ODBC
Python	PyKX qPython
NaCL	geocar/qsalt	NaCL bindings for q/kdb
NodeJS	geocar/qnode	kdb+ client in NodeJS
ODBC		server for ODBC3
PHP	geocar/qphp	kdb+ IPC implementation for PHP
WebSockets	kxcontrib/websocket

Editor integrations

editor	source	note
Emacs	geocar/kq-mode	major mode for Emacs; supports Tramp and Babel psaris/q-mode
Evolved	simongarland/Syntaxhighlighter-for-q
TextMate	psaris/KX.tmbundle
vim	simongarland/vim
Visual Studio Code	jshinonome/vscode-q
WordPress	Syntaxhighlighter-for-q

Frameworks

• kdb-taq – Process trade-and-quote data
• kdb-tick – tickerplant

Cloud deployment

KX Insights provides tools for deploying kdb+ systems in the cloud.

• KX Insights Core:
  • packaging
  • orchestration
  • REST interfaces
  • logging
  • object storage
  • Google BigQuery
• KX Insights Microservices: an ecosystem of cloud-native microservices, built with kdb+ Cloud Edition, all with OpenAPI specifications
  • service discovery
  • data access
  • service gateway
  • storage manager
  • stream processor
  • dashboards
• kxcontrib/cloud-autoscaling – cloud autoscaling

Database admin and devops

• kxcontrib/BigQueryKdbInteroperability – Transferring data to and from BigQuery
• kxcontrib/kdbAlertTP – Tickerplant set-up to test Alert Monitor
• MdSalih/Kdb-stuff – ServerChecker: how to execute commands on a remote box via SSH from within a q process and parse Linux system info (cpuinfo/meminfo/df)
• kxcontrib/massIngestionDataloader – Mass data ingestion
• jfealy/q – Database and log utilities
• gyorokpeter/qbinparse – Customizable binary data parser

Developer tools

• LeslieGoldsmith/dpy – General object display with type and structure
• KxSystems/help – Online help for q
• KxSystems/kdb – Companion files to the kdb+ product
• KxSystems/man – man-style reference
• gitrj95/q-memo – memoize functions that are expensive to compute
• LeslieGoldsmith/qprof – Code profiler
• CillianReilly/qtools – Development tools
• Charles/Skelton/studio – A rapid-development environment for q
• LeslieGoldsmith/ws – Workspace utilities

FinTech

• BrianOSu/qlibs – Binance interface
• finos/kdb – Common standards, tools, and libraries to facilitate collaborative development, ease artifact reuse, and improve usability and administration of kdb+ software in enterprise deployments
• kxcontrib/market-fragmentation – Analyse market fragmentation
• dmorgankx/optionpricing – Option pricing

Machine learning

• kxcontrib/wp-knn – K Nearest Neighbors
• KxSystems/ml – Machine-Learning Toolkit

Miscellaneous

• cburke/amcharts – A set of flash charts designed for Web applications
• quintanar401/DCoQ – ‘Dark corners’ of q
• skeevey/fb.q – Flappy birds clone in q for Linux
• stevanapter/hypertree – Recursive aggregating treetable and 3-D pivot table for hypergrid
• BuaBook/kdb-common – Miscellaneous production libraries
• kxcontrib/oauth2 – OAuth2
• rianoc/qCam – Image capture and manipulation on a Raspberry Pi
• emc211/qGames – Games: Battleship, chess, Minesweeper, poker
• kxcontrib/q-signals – Signal processing
• gyorokpeter/qx86 – x86 assembler, disassembler and emulator
• kxcontrib/trend-indicators – Trend indicators
• AngusWilson/whatStats – Analyse WhatsApp chat logs
• gyorokpeter/qtcp – Open raw TCP connections in-process for q to communicate through

Training

• KxSystems/analyst-training – Training for KX Analyst and KX Developer
• KxSystems/cookbook – Companion files to the Knowledge Base
• KxSystems/mlnotebooks – Machine-Learning notebooks
• KxSystems/nlp – Demonstration notebook for natural-language processing
• kxcontrib/phrases – The Q Phrasebook