Calling anything from Arthur "vaporware" is really laughable.
This article isn't great, but it's from a finance site, not a technical site: of course it's going to be low on technical details. You would think that people who want technical details would know how to use a search engine.
Further, kdb/kdb+ (which Shakti is the successor of) is a columnar-based database. "How many results can it return [...] from a table with how many rows?" is completely irrelevant.
There are hundreds of benchmarks for kdb+, and the speed of k is unrivaled.
This article isn't great, but it's from a finance site, not a technical site: of course it's going to be low on technical details. You would think that people who want technical details would know how to use a search engine.
Further, kdb/kdb+ (which Shakti is the successor of) is a columnar-based database. "How many results can it return [...] from a table with how many rows?" is completely irrelevant.
There are hundreds of benchmarks for kdb+, and the speed of k is unrivaled.