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MonetDB


MonetDB is an open-source column-oriented relational database management system developed at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands. It targets analytical workloads, online analytical processing (OLAP), data mining, geographic information systems, RDF storage, text retrieval, and sequence alignment processing. The system implements standard SQL with ACID compliance, window functions, and provides JDBC and ODBC drivers for application integration.[06]

Source Code
https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB[02]
Country of Origin
NL
Start Year
2002
Former Name
Monet
Project Types
Academic, Commercial, Open Source
Written in
C
Supported Languages
Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby
Operating Systems
Linux, macOS, Windows
Twitter
@MonetDB[05]

Database Entry

MonetDB


MonetDB is an open-source column-oriented relational database management system developed at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands. It targets analytical workloads, online analytical processing (OLAP), data mining, geographic information systems, RDF storage, text retrieval, and sequence alignment processing. The system implements standard SQL with ACID compliance, window functions, and provides JDBC and ODBC drivers for application integration.[06]

History


The system's development originated in the 1990s within the MAGNUM research project at CWI and the University of Amsterdam. The system was formally established in 2002 by Peter Boncz and Martin L. Kersten, initially named Monet.

CWI open-sourced MonetDB in 2004 under a modified Mozilla Public License. Ongoing development is managed by MonetDB Solutions while maintaining open-source availability.

Compression


Concurrency Control[07]


Data Model


Foreign Keys[08]


Indexes[09][10]


MonetDB has a special column imprints for secondary indexes.

Isolation Levels[11]


Cannot find the default isolation level. However it supports set the isolation level to be SERIALIZABLE.

Joins[12]


MonetDB uses radix partitioned join algorithm in hash join.

Logging[11]


Parallel Execution


Query Compilation[13]


The query will be compiled to MonetDB Assembly Language(MAL).

Query Execution[14]


Query Interface[11]


SQL

Some other tools are in the citations.

Storage Architecture[15]


Storage Model[16]


Stored Procedures[11]


System Architecture


User-Defined Functions


Views[11]


Derivative Systems
Vector Vector

Citations

16 sources
  1. MonetDB monetdb.org
  2. GitHub - MonetDB/MonetDB: This is the official mirror of the MonetDB Mercurial repository. Please note that we do not accept pull requests on github. The regression test results can be found on the MonetDB Testweb https://www.monetdb.org/testweb/web/ github.com
  3. Documentation | MonetDB Docs monetdb.org
  4. MonetDB - Wikipedia wikipedia.org
  5. https://twitter.com/MonetDB twitter.com
  6. https://dare.uva.nl/id/aa4f797f-853d-4a75-8383-6d6a60948fac uva.nl
  7. https://www.monetdb.org/blogs monetdb.org
  8. SQL Manual | MonetDB Docs monetdb.org
  9. Column imprints: a secondary index structure cmu.edu
  10. indexing - How MonetDB uses indexes? - Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com
  11. https://www.monetdb.org/documentation-Dec2025 monetdb.org
  12. Memory-Efficient Hash Joins vldb.org
  13. https://www.monetdb.org/book/export/html/184 monetdb.org Dead — Check Archive
  14. https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2005/papers/P19.pdf cidrdb.org
  15. Disk Space | MonetDB Docs monetdb.org
  16. Key Concepts | MonetDB Docs monetdb.org
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