MonetDB is useful for read-mostly applications like data warehousing/OLAP and such where you're often looking to summarize your data in bulk as opposed to OLTP where you have lots of single row inserts, point lookups and updates.

Basically stuff like:
SELECT country, SUM(sales)
FROM sales
WHERE sale_date > '2005-01-01'
GROUP BY country

MonetDB is a column store not entirely unlike Vertica, LucidDB or Infobright.

Travis

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Martin Kersten <Martin.Kersten@cwi.nl> wrote:
steve wrote:
> What are the use cases for monetdb?
>
what are you looking for?
See the website for indications of the deployment of MonetDB..
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