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Kerf (Kerf2) is a columnar tick database and time-series language for Linux/OSX/BSD/iOS/Android. It is written in C++ and natively speaks JSON and SQL. Kerf can be used for trading platforms, feedhandlers, low-latency networking, high-volume analysis of realtime and historical data, logfile processing, and more.

14 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 5 stories, 9 comments · first 2015-04-08 · latest 2022-07-23

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  1. There is also https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf > Kerf2 is designed for full concurrency. It also adds transparent type promotion, a C++ instead of C basis, and more. Which goes unlicensed right now and was created just a bit before the…
    comment by rochoa · 2022-07-23 · in Kerf Time Series Lang and Columnar DB Open Sourced
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    kerf
    story by tosh · 2020-01-10 · 0 comments
  3. https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf It has no benchmarks so that's not a good sign. But there is another time series database that also allows you to use basic SQL: InfluxDB.
    comment by threeseed · 2016-09-02 · in Atlas Data Structure
  4. …pages of 'easy to read' Python for example. How is Kerf [1] coming along? How similar to J? [1] https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf
    comment by eggy · 2016-08-10 · in APL Tutorial
  5. …need to be spent to try and duplicate an existing solution, and still not be a better solution? [1] https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf
    comment by eggy · 2016-05-24 · in Spark as a Compiler: Joining a Billion Rows per Second on a Laptop
  6. …the financial industry. [1] https://kx.com/ [2] http://www.jsoftware.com/jdhelp/overview.html [3] https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf [4] https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona
    comment by eggy · 2016-05-10 · in Time Series, the new shiny?
  7. Kerf homepage: http://www.kerfsoftware.com/ Kerf github: https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf
    comment by brudgers · 2015-12-16 · in An introduction to Kerf
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    Kerf – Array language and database in one
    story by eggy · 2015-12-16 · 0 comments
  9. Great description from the reference manual ( https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf/blob/master/manual/refma... ): "Kerf is a programming language built on pragmatism, borrowing ideas from many popular tools. The syntax of Kerf will be…
    comment by srpeck · 2015-12-16 · in An introduction to Kerf
  10. …one considers the license. Still, its embrace of Json is something for other implementors note. https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf That brings us to http://kparc.com . In the gloomy distance, beyond the pillowy smoke of the fires on which…
    comment by tlack · 2015-09-19 · in Tell HN: Q/Kdb 32-bit no longer free for commercial use
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    Kerf
    story by revorad · 2015-08-28 · 0 comments
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    Kerf: a columnar tick database for Linux, OS X, BSD, iOS, Android
    story by luu · 2015-06-26 · 30 comments
  13. You might give Kerf a try: https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf
    comment by kcl · 2015-06-26 · in Ask HN: APL family instead of R for data analysis?
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    Kerf – array programming and query language for iOS
    story by twotwotwo · 2015-04-08 · 0 comments