What makes time-series database KDB-X so fast?
Summary
The article explores the design and engineering decisions that make the KDB-X time-series database exceptionally fast. It covers architectural choices around indexing, memory management, and query execution, and discusses how compression, caching, and parallelism contribute to throughput for time-series workloads. The piece also situates KDB-X against other databases with benchmarks and practical takeaways for building or selecting a high-performance time-series data stack.