Greetings all,

I have a simple question about MonetDB.
I'm evaluating different several column-store db and I have some questions about Monet :

• Is MonetDB a column-store database ? If yes I can't understand how I can query it with standard SQL (it'so simple bue it seem to be the ONLY column-store db that support SQL)
• Can MonetDB scale-out over several machines (to build a cluster) for the same database ?
• There is no .NET provider that I can use to connect to MonetDB for fast accessing from C# instead of using ODBC ?

In general I'm looking for a database that can perform realtime queries against milions of records, because we are going to build a web application that need real fast access to the data.
What are best practices in desing tables in MonetDB ?

Thanks a lot to everyone!
S