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		atemerev on Jan 25, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1.1B Taxi Rides on Kdb+/q and 4 Xeon Phi CPUs The binary file of the database (all-inclusive and statically linked) is around 300 kilobytes (!), which makes is probably the most expensive (non-custom) software per kilobyte.

geocar on Jan 25, 2017 [–]

kdb is not statically linked.

edit:

    $ file q/l64/q
    q/l64/q: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18,

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