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]
- Website
- https://www.monetdb.org[01]
- 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
- License
- Mozilla Public License
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.
Isolation Levels[11]
Cannot find the default isolation level. However it supports set the isolation level to be SERIALIZABLE.
Citations
16 sources- MonetDB monetdb.org
- 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
- Documentation | MonetDB Docs monetdb.org
- MonetDB - Wikipedia wikipedia.org
- https://twitter.com/MonetDB twitter.com
- https://dare.uva.nl/id/aa4f797f-853d-4a75-8383-6d6a60948fac uva.nl
- https://www.monetdb.org/blogs monetdb.org
- SQL Manual | MonetDB Docs monetdb.org
- Column imprints: a secondary index structure cmu.edu
- indexing - How MonetDB uses indexes? - Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com
- https://www.monetdb.org/documentation-Dec2025 monetdb.org
- Memory-Efficient Hash Joins vldb.org
- https://www.monetdb.org/book/export/html/184 monetdb.org
- https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2005/papers/P19.pdf cidrdb.org
- Disk Space | MonetDB Docs monetdb.org
- Key Concepts | MonetDB Docs monetdb.org