kdb Insights Financial Services Industry Accelerators Overview

This page provides an overview of the kdb Insights Financial Services Industry (FSI) Accelerators.

The kdb Insights Financial Services Industry (FSI) Accelerators bring fast outcomes to your FSI projects and implementations. kdb Insights FSI Accelerators are built around common FSI use cases that combine scalable market data ingest with highly performant analytics, you can take immediate advantage of kdb Insights Enterprise's power to turbocharge your business.

Transform your kdb Insights Enterprise installation into a fully functioning solution that you can customize and extend in minutes, not months with:

• Out-of-the-box performant reference solution architectures

• Feed handlers and ingest pipelines for industry standard real-time market data vendors

• Ingest pipelines for industry standard historical or batch data sources

• Performant, extendable database schemas

• Common asset-class specific analytics and APIs

• Templated query and visualization examples, catering for:

  • Advanced dashboarding needs with Insights Views

  • Python notebooks for quant and data science use cases

  • REST API examples for fast interop with downstream applications

FSI Accelerators use a common underlying library that provides its analytic APIs, refer to the FSI Accelerator Library for more information.

Available FSI Accelerators

• ICE Order Book Building - Realtime data ingest and order book building for ICE (The Intercontinental Exchange) Futures

• ICE Fixed Income Bond Screener - The KX Fixed Income Bond Screener Accelerator ingests realtime, historic, and reference data from ICE® (The Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.®) Fixed Income and Data Services and persists them in kdb Insights Enterprise

• KX Flow - The KX Flow Accelerator ingests FX price and order information from KX Flow and persists it in kdb Insights Enterprise

• KX Equity Analytics for ICE® Data - Equity order analytics with data from ICE Replay

• KX Equity Analytics for Bloomberg Data License - Equity order analytics with data from Bloomberg Data License

• KX Accelerator for Bloomberg B-PIPE - Realtime data ingest with EMRS entitlements for Bloomberg B-PIPE

Feature highlights

• The FSI Accelerator Library contains the following APIs:

  • getTicks - Finance specific functionality for data retrieval and request-reply enrichment

  • getStats - Aggregation and windowing support on top of getTicks

  • getBars - Aggregation and windowing on top of pre-calculated (EOD) barred data for improved performance

• Asset class features for getTicks

• Cancellations and Corrections support for query results

Asset class features

• Futures features for getTicks

• FX features for getTicks

Customization & operations

• API Configuration for getTicks

• Customization & adding analytics to getStats

• Error Glossary for the FSI Accelerator

Latest versions and compatibilities

The table below lists the kdb Insights Enterprise versions along with the corresponding versions of each Accelerator.

For more information, version history, and the corresponding fsi-lib versions, refer to the individual release notes pages.

Combined accelerator packages

Some compatible accelerators are available as pre-combined packages. These bundles include the underlying versions noted in the table below.

Unless otherwise noted, the installation and quickstart process is the same as for the individual accelerators—just use the new combined package name.