D-Link with R/MATLAB/Julia/SQL

[Rikki Cattermole]

On Thursday, 5 December 2013 at 11:13:17 UTC, Siavash Babaei 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I primarily work in statistical modelling of financial data 
> (risk modelling). I am at a point when I need to think about 
> developing applications in addition to data analysis and 
> modelling.
> My primary concern is whether or not I can run/call-on 
> programmes that I have written in R/MATLAB/Julia. Accessing a 
> database is also a concern.
> Now, I know C++/Visual Studio can handle this but I would like 
> something more reliable and exciting (!better!) and I would 
> like to know if I am in the right place.
>
> Thank You

D has the ability to use c and (a lot of c++) libraries.
Currently building D as a shared library isn't the best however 
it seems MATLAB's code can be compiled into a shared library [1].
For both you will need to write a binding for it. DerelictUtil is 
a library that can help binding, getting function pointers to 
shared libraries [2].

Databases we have not too much in the way of that. Vibe-d has 
good wrappers around Mongo and Redis [3]. I have made bindings to 
OpenDBX [4] which support multiple backends [5]. However that is 
just the c api so nothing nice about it.
There is also other libraries which I haven't mentioned. Because 
I haven't tried them. You can see a list of projects currently 
being maintained using dub (build manager) [6].

If you need any help with this, let us know!

[1] http://www.mathworks.com.au/support/compilers/interface.html
[2] https://github.com/DerelictOrg/DerelictUtil
[3] https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d
[4] https://github.com/rikkimax/Derelict_Extras---OpenDBX
[5] http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX/Support
[6] http://code.dlang.org