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This page aims to cover in detail the history of the K dialects and their official implementations.

= The original K specification =

<ref>https://kparc.io/#</ref>[[Arthur Whitney]] left I.P. Sharp and Associates in 1992 to create a new language.

<ref>https://kparc.io/#</ref>[[Arthur Whitney]] left I.P. Sharp and Associates in 1992 to create a new language. Arthur Whitney formed [[Kx Systems]] jointly with Janet Lustgarten in 1993.

= K2 and K3 =

[[K2]] and [[K3]] were the first commercially developed and supported versions of K made at [[Kx Systems]]. K3 came with a complete reference manual<ref>http://www.nsl.com/misc/k/win/k2/kreflite.pdf</ref> that consisted of the

documentation for the entire language. kdb+ was a database system that was sold along with K that provided an in-memory database manageable using K.

In 2003, Q was released as a "wrapper around k providing readability".

= K4 ~~- K6~~ =

= [[K4]] =

K4 is the current commercial dialect supported by Kx Systems, which is bundled alongside Q as an implementation language. K4 requires a command to switch from Q to K, and the documentation at code.kx.com does not cover K4.

= Shakti(K7,K9): 2018-present =

= [[Shakti]](K7,K9): 2018-present =

[[Arthur Whitney]] sold his majority stake in KX systems and departed along with a few of his associates to create a new company called [[Shakti]], along with which came the creation and development of the K7 and K9 dialects.

K7 was maintained for a few years and is no longer available for use.

K9 is currently nascent and (as per the onsite claims)<ref>[https://shakti.com/ shakti]</ref> supports fast processing of tables with row numbers in the billions and trillions. Binaries for K9

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