Column-store features

When your database grows into millions of records spread over lots of tables and used in business or science data warehouse applications, you really want a column-store database management system. MonetDB innovates at all layers of a DBMS, e.g. a storage model based on vertical fragmentation, a modern CPU-tuned query execution architecture, automatic and self-tuning indexes, run-time query optimization, and a modular software architecture.

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Download and documentation

The download section contains information to get started with the binary or source download. Once installed, you may want to follow the short tutorials for Linux or Windows, or explore the SQL documentation for details about the language and recipes for common tasks in application development.

The nuts and bolts on the database kernel are described in the MonetDB section and the science library.

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