TS enhanced version of riak_core, got it.<p>Most TS, or tick DBs, are columnar-based, memory-mapped, fast and light systems.<p>Are there any benchmarks similar to STAC-M3, which is a year&#x27;s worth of NYSE data run on different hardware to gauge kdb+&#x27;s effectiveness on different hardware configurations [1]? It&#x27;s a great way to gauge performance and TCO.<p>Does it do both memory (streaming data) and disk-based (historical) storage for big data set analytics in realtime?<p>I&#x27;d be interested to see numbers there.<p>A lot of people think kdb+ is only for finance. There is a conference coming up in May that will have talks on q (the language for the kdb+ database) about natural language processing and machine learning in q to name a few. Another is about using it at a power plant to most efficiently route power based upon realtime data [2].<p>I only got into kdb+ and q with the free, non-commercial 32-bit version. I usually use J and sometimes APL, which had MapReduce since at least the 80s for APL.Check out this post from 2009 [3]. I guess the &#x27;new shiny&#x27; bit threw me in your chosen title.<p>[1]  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stacresearch.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;stac-reports-intel-ivy-bridge-ex-stac-m3-and-kdb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stacresearch.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;stac-reports-intel-...</a><p>[2]  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kxcon2016.com&#x2F;agenda&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kxcon2016.com&#x2F;agenda&#x2F;</a><p>[3]  <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.data-miners.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;04&#x2F;mapreduce-hadoop-everything-old-is-new.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.data-miners.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;04&#x2F;mapreduce-hadoop-everyth...</a>