Running code on a Managed kdb Insights cluster - Amazon FinSpace

After careful consideration, we decided to end support for Amazon FinSpace, effective October 7, 2026. Amazon FinSpace will no longer accept new customers beginning October 7, 2025. As an existing customer with an Amazon FinSpace environment created before October 7, 2025, you can continue to use the service as normal. After October 7, 2026, you will no longer be able to use Amazon FinSpace. For more information, see Amazon FinSpace end of support.

Running code on a Managed kdb Insights cluster

Q is the programming system for working with kdb+. This corresponds to SQL for traditional databases, but unlike SQL, q is a powerful interpreted programming language in its own right. Q expressions can be entered and run in the q console, or loaded from a q script, which is a text file with extension .q. For more information, see the q documentation. You can run your own kdb code on a Managed kdb cluster to perform analytics or query data in a database.

The following sections describe how you can use q in FinSpace.