Is SQL Fast Enough for Tick Data?
Article by McObject CEO and co-founder Steven Graves.
Published on November 5, 2015, reprinted with permission from TabbFORUM .
Trading systems have eschewed SQL due to its perceived performance latency and unpredictability, in favor of more labor-intensive, lower-level programming languages (namely q and C/C++) for database operations. But is SQL really too slow for trading systems?
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