MonetDB is an open source high-performance Database system developed at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI; Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica ) in the Netherlands. It was designed to provide high performance on complex queries against large databases, e.g. combining table (database) with hundreds of columns and multi-million rows. As such, MonetDB can be used in application areas that because of performance issues are no-go areas for using traditional database technology in a real-time computing manner. MonetDB has been successfully applied in high-performance applications for data mining, OLAP, GIS, XML Query, text and Multimedia retrieval.

MonetDB achieves this goal using innovations at all layers of a s. MonetDB also features automatic and self-tuning indexes, run-time query optimization, a modular software architecture, etc.

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