MonetDB is a high performance relational database system for analytics
MonetDB offers a robust SQL compliant database interface, enabling applications ranging from pure analytics to hybrid transactional/analytical processing. It supports common features including keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures, along with full-ACID properties for concurrent transactions. Additionally, MonetDB embraces advanced SQL standards such as SQL:1999 ROLLUP CUBE, and GROUPING SETS, SQL:2003 merge statements, and SQL:2011 window functions, ensuring comprehensive tools for database management and analytics.
MonetDB delivers query results in mere seconds or even less. This high-performance on heavy analytical workloads is achieved through fine-grained optimization across the database software stack. Queries undergo transformation by tens of relational optimizers into a parallel execution plan that capitalizes on modern multi-core CPU architecture, all based on a columnar storage model tailored for analytical data processing. Moreover, where beneficial, additional indices are employed to further accelerate query execution, making MonetDB an ideal choice for demanding analytical environments.
MonetDB enables you to leverage hooks to integrate your own user-defined functions (UDFs) in SQL. This flexibility is complemented by support for a variety of UDF types, including aggregate, filter, window, and table returning SQL functions. Moreover, MonetDB offers seamless integration since it comes with JDBC and ODBC drivers and several programming language interface libraries. This feature set empowers users to tailor their database operations to their specific needs, enhancing functionality and performance.
MonetDB is open-source and its community includes students, teachers, researchers, start-ups, small businesses, and multinational enterprises, all benefiting from MonetDB's roots in core database research. With a history of closely following the frontline of technological development since its source release in 2004, MonetDB has continually matured proven research ideas into production-level features, contributing product improvements back to the community and fostering a vibrant ecosystem of innovation.
BI dashboard applications
Workflow management systems
Medical & DNA data analysis
Financial data analysis & predictions
Astronomical objects behaviour studies
Network performance & security monitoring
Time series
Machine Learning
Streaming data processing
Spatial temporal applications
MonetDB is free and Open Source.
The license of MonetDB is the Mozilla Public License, version 2.0.
For all earlier license versions, the MonetDB Public License Version 1.1 applies.
Read more about MonetDB license at Legal Notices.
Yeah, you heard it right! MonetDB inventor is a Knight in the Royal Order of the Netherlands Lion.
MonetDB is used worldwide for education, research, and businesses.
And, we're more than a bit nerdy!
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