2025-11-10 - KDB Project Call Meeting Minutes

[rdffy]

Date

Monday, November 10, 2025 - 9:30am ET / 2:30pm UK

// Second Monday of every month

Attendees

Fullname	Affiliation	GitHub Username
Péter Györök	KX	gyorokpeter
Aaron Davies	Morgan Stanley	adavies42
Rian Ó Cuinneagáin	KX	rianoc-kx
Karl Moll	FINOS
Ross Duffy	Morgan Stanley	rdffy

Meeting notices

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Agenda

• (5 min) Convene, roll call, welcome new people.
• Display FINOS Antitrust Policy summary slide
• Review Meeting Notices (see above)
• (5 min) Approve previous meeting minutes
• (20 min) KX / kdb+ goings-on
• (15 min) Community building
  • Anything of interest from recent KX meetups (Capital markets in NYC and London )
    • multiple topics discussed. Karl to reach out to KX MCP person to see if there is any interest in the FINOS MCP group
    • gpu kdb-x usage examples looked impressive
    • questions on parquet usage, kdb-x module can read from parquet. Writing parquet is not yet possible (arrowkdb and pykx can be used for this)
    • clarification was made on kdbx-python being the focus going forward, learning from pykx's release.
      • pykx will be maintained but new features and development will be focused on kdbx-python
      • 3.X last major release of pykx
      • 3.x has been and is receiving bug fixes and config tidying up improvements
    • Array Cast podcast recommended.
    • links for more details on KX products and array cast link provided by Rian in the comments.
• (5 min) Brainstorming
• (5 min) AOB, Q&A, Adjourn

Join Zoom Meeting

• https://zoom.us/j/94523415326?pwd=NkJDaUtUUlZTcHVwcUJHdG0yRFJUdz09
• Meeting ID: 945 2341 5326
• Passcode: 361990
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abTtYRZ0B6

[gyorokpeter]

Péter Györök / KX

[adavies42]

Aaron Davies/Morgan Stanley

[rianoc-kx]

Rian Ó Cuinneagáin / KX

[karlmoll]

Karl Moll / FINOS

[rianoc-kx]

London meetup talk subjects:

• Data Intellect creating KDB-X modules https://dataintellect.com/blog/kdb-x-modules-community-effort/
• GPU acceleration in KDB-X https://kx.com/blog/gpu-acceleration-in-kdb-x-faster-as-of-joins-and-sorting/
• KDB-X https://docs.kx.com/latest/kdb-x/home.htm
  • Modules https://docs.kx.com/public-preview/kdb-x/integrations/module-management.htm
  • Parquet https://docs.kx.com/public-preview/kdb-x/integrations/parquet.htm
• EPAM systems consultancy (Purchasers of First Derivatives)
• KX Community
  • https://forum.kx.com/
  • http://kx.com/slack

[rdffy]

Ross Duffy / Morgan Stanley

[rianoc-kx]

• Array Cast (array language podcast) https://www.arraycast.com/
• KX MCP Server:
  • https://github.com/KxSystems/kdbai-mcp-server
  • https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb-x-mcp-server