Impending kOS (2014)

For the last twenty years it has evolved as kdb+, trading as Kx Systems, Inc.[2] It’s a two-orders-of-magnitude sort of thing: two orders of magnitude faster than industry-standard database, two orders of magnitude smaller code volume. Whitney sent Oleg and Pierre some of the C code he was working on, and notes on a problem he didn’t know how to solve. Whitney demonstrated his “research K interpreter” at the Iverson College meeting[5] in Cambridge in 2011.

Source: archive.vector.org.uk