MonetDB: Two Decades of Research in Column-oriented Database Architectures

Abstract

MonetDB is a state-of-the-art open-source column-store database management system targeting applications in need for analytics over large collections of data. MonetDB is actively used nowadays in \nhealth care, in telecommunications as well as in scienti\xef\xac\x81c databases and in data management research, \naccumulating on average more than 10,000 downloads on a monthly basis. This paper gives a brief \noverview of the MonetDB technology as it developed over the past two decades and the main research \nhighlights which drive the current MonetDB design and form the basis for its future evolution