Integrated time-series, vector, and GPU compute enables production-scale AI by eliminating handoffs across research, backtesting, and live trading workflows

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KX, a global leader in real-time, time-series, and AI-driven analytics, today announced the general availability of KDB-X, a unified compute engine designed to bring real-time AI into production for capital markets. By integrating time-series, vector, and GPU compute in a single runtime, KDB-X eliminates the fragmentation between research, backtesting, and live trading, enabling firms to deploy AI-driven strategies and agentic workflows with speed and control.

KDB-X introduces GPU-accelerated analytics for time-series workloads, delivering 10x to 25x performance gains on core operations such as joins, aggregations, and model scoring. Built on the kdb+ engine, the platform also continues KX’s leadership in industry benchmarks, where KX consistently outperforms alternative architectures in high-volume tick analytics in the STAC MS benchmark.

KDB-X unifies structured market data with unstructured alternative data in a single environment, combining deterministic analytics with generative AI grounded in temporal context. This allows firms to build, test, and deploy intelligent trading and risk systems without moving between separate systems for time-series, vector search, and AI compute.

“North Rock is continually evolving its technology stack to keep pace with the increasing demands of real-time data and AI-driven decision making,” said Don Breslauer, Chief Technology Officer at North Rock Capital. “KDB-X’s unified design is an exciting development, and we see strong potential in how it could help reduce infrastructure complexity while enabling more efficient, real-time analytics and AI workflows.”

At NVIDIA GTC 2026, CEO Jensen Huang recognized KDB-X as an enterprise-class AI database, highlighting its role in the emerging agentic AI stack. KX and NVIDIA have collaborated on production-ready AI blueprints for capital markets, including research assistants and trading signal agents built on the NVIDIA AI platform. Early deployments have demonstrated significant gains in research speed and operational efficiency.

“Our clients in capital markets demand performance, resilience, and clarity in their technology stack,” said Jonny Press, CTO of Data Intellect. “KDB-X consolidates time-series analytics and AI workloads into a single production platform, streamlining deployment and improving operational control. Simplification is critical in real-time trading environments.”

Data from the KX Capital Markets Data Report shows that quants are already seeing a 62% productivity lift from AI. However, firms only translate those gains into competitive advantage when research, backtesting, and production operate on a unified foundation. Organizations that reduce infrastructure fragmentation achieve results an average of 6.6 months faster than peers.

“AI in capital markets has outpaced the infrastructure built to support it,” said Ashok Reddy, CEO of KX. “KDB-X closes that gap by unifying time-series, vector, and GPU compute in a single production engine. With transparent pricing, an open ecosystem, and natural language access, we’re making real-time AI systems accessible to a much broader set of builders.”

KDB-X is designed to address long-standing barriers to adoption. It introduces transparent pricing, a free Community Edition for commercial use, and native support for open data formats including Apache Parquet. The platform also includes built-in natural language querying via MCP Server, enabling users to interact with live and historical data using AI assistants. Together, these capabilities reduce cost, simplify integration, and expand access beyond specialist developers.

KDB-X, KDB-X GPU Acceleration, and KDB-X Community Edition are generally available. Firms can begin deploying unified AI-driven trading and risk systems immediately through the KX Developer Center.

About KX

KX software powers real-time, time-series, and AI-driven analytics across capital markets, aerospace & defense, and high-tech manufacturing. Built for speed, precision, and scale, the KX platform enables organizations to extract actionable insights from streaming, sensor, and historical data to support critical use cases from predictive maintenance and operational automation to real-time simulation and vertical agentic AI. Trusted globally for its proven performance and reliability, KX delivers the data infrastructure enterprises need to thrive in an AI-driven world. www.KX.com.

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Source: KX