MonetDB is an open-source implementation of a column-oriented database. It is focused on analytical applications on a main memory resident database. MonetDB is a relational database and provides an SQL top-level interface. It is actively developed at CWI in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Spawn subprocess in R
I'm trying to spawn a sub-process in R using the subprocess library, as presented in this tutorial. The Problem is that the program I'm trying to launch requires an additional command after the executable.
Example:
I would launch the command from…

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monetdb full outer join resulting in varchar type_digits=0
I am using MonetDB v11.29.7 "Mar2018-SP1" on a Windows10 x64 bit operating system. When I perform a full outer join with two tables on respective varchar columns with lengths > 0 (type_digits > 0), the resultant column in the target table yields a…

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MonetDb performance on a large table with 20K columns
I'm testing MonetDB as a solution for a data-science project. I have a table of 21K columns - all but three are features described as float (32bit) and 6.5M rows (which may or may not become larger, perhaps up to 20M rows).
My aim is to use the…

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What is best tool to benchmark MonetDB
I'm currently searching for a MonetDB benchmark software. However, I'm a novice in this field and I can't find compatible benchmark tool for MonetDB. It seems like developers of MonetDB used "Xmark". However, it only supports MonetDB4 not MonetDB5.…

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Why is my DBI connector doing a dummy query with predicate "where 0 = 1"?
I have some R test code that I use to connect to a MonetDB instance.
I notice that for each connection that I create through tbl(conn, "some_table") I somehow always end up with a 'primer' query of the
form
SELECT *
FROM "some_table" AS…

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Using tbl and src_monetdblite to access data
Sorry if this question has been asked elsewhere, I can't find it. I'm working through some basic examples in MonetDBLite.
> dbGetQuery(dbcon, "SELECT MAX(mpg) FROM mtcars WHERE cyl = 8")
L3
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works, but
> ms <-…

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Installing MonetDB ODBC on windows 10 x64
The installation page does not mention Windows 10. Is it possible to download MonetDB ODBC for that OS? If so, where can I find the steps to do so.
Thanks for your support.

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MonetDB recursive CTE (common table expressions)
It seems MonetDB does not support recursive CTE. This is a useful feature that I used to get BOM from ERP systems. For a greater flexibility I used Firebird recursive stored procedures to enhance the output with extra calculations. A good example…

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Updating column based on other two tables
I have the following three tables as follows,
select * from student_grade;
+--------------+----------+----------+-------+--------------------------+
| enrollmentid | courseid | personid | grade | credits_earned …

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Combine the output of different queries as a single query output
How do I combine the output of different queries.
I have the following sql queries with the output:
1) select d.departmentid, d.name, count(distinct(sg.personid)) as noOfStudents from department d inner join course c on c.departmentid =…

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sql inner join on more than 2 tables and aggregate function
I have the following tables,
select * from department;
+--------------+--------------+--------+------------+---------------+
| departmentid | name | budget | startdate | administrator…

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MonetDB client compilation
I'm a beginner in the Database community. I have been trying to interface with MonetDB using C/C++ MAPI. I have installed MonetDB on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS machine and when I try to compile a sample program from here, I get the following error:
$ gcc…

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monetdb cluster management can't setup
I'm trying to follow MonetDB docs on Cluster Management
to setup a 3 nodes cluster using 3 Centos machines, I created the 3 dbfarm using monetdbd create /path/to/mydbfarm and from the first node, I run monetdb discover and it returns nothing where…

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MonetDB insert wrong data
please help
One of tables in database starts inserting wrong data. I'm doing simple
insert into operator_poll(operator_id, poll_id, activity_id) values (1,2,3);
and got
+-------------+---------+----------------------------+-------------+
|…

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Allow arbitrary user to read MonetDB's sys.queue
I created a user foouser and a schema fooschema with some tables in it. Foouser executes long-running queries to its tables in fooschema.
Now I'd like to check on the status of the queries. However, foouser does not have sufficient permissions to…

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