K4

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K4
Developer KX Systems
Released 2000

Temporal types yes
Table support no
Prototypes none

Implemented in C
Platforms x86, ARM
Operating Systems Windows, Linux, OSX
License proprietary

Website https://kx.com
Documentation Online Documentation

This page is incomplete.

K4 is the major dialect behind the primary implementation provided by KX Systems. The K4 spec is generally paired with kdb+, and Q, its accompanying query language.


History

Changes from K3

Many changes can be seen from K3 to K4.

Primitive changes:

  • % from reciprocal to square root
  • ^ from shape/power to except/fill
  • monadic @ from atom? to type

The system values (prefixed with an underscore) from K3 are no longer present in K4, which uses

References