Bitwise operations in Monetdb

I am new to Monetdb. I am using Postgresql mainly, but want to check Monetdb performace. In Postres I have column of type bit() filled with 0s and 1s. Then I am comparing each row to all other rows with bitwise AND on that column. Monetdb does not have bit() type so I used text. Any ideas how to do bitwise AND in monetdb and what type of column should I use for this? The query I tried: select a.sentenecid, b.sentenecid, a.sentence AND b.sentence from test a, test b;