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Kerf (Kerf1) 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.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 2 comments · first 2022-05-13 · latest 2026-05-19

Mentions per year 4 mentions · busiest year 2022 (3)
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    Kerf (Kerf1)
    story by tosh · 2026-05-19 · 0 comments
  2. The issue with the discussion about the license change: https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf1/issues/10
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    Kerf Time Series Lang and Columnar DB Open Sourced
    story by srpeck · 2022-07-21 · 11 comments
  4. …Kona has written kerf which I believe is intended for this same space. I’ve never used it though. https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf1
    comment by gitonthescene · 2022-05-13 · in K – A simple, fast vector programming language