q is a MinimalistLanguage created by ArthurWhitney and distributed by http://kx.com. It is an ArrayOrientedLanguage that also implements a RelationalDatabase. It shares some characteristics with APL (AplLanguage) and J (JayLanguage) and its predecessors A+ (AplusLanguage) and k (KayLanguage); like k, its greatest use is in managing huge transaction-oriented databases. In this class of problem q's performance is often staggering.

A trial version can be downloaded from http://kx.com/trialsoftware.php.

Documentation is available at http://code.kx.com/ and http://kx.com/q/d/ ; more examples are available at http://kx.com/q/e/ (and other subdirectories of http://kx.com/q/).

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CategoryProgrammingLanguage, CategoryDatabase