Column-store database management systems have recently experienced a
considerable popularity-boost. The underlying ideas, however, date back to
(at least) the mid 1980's and the technology has been pioneered since the
early 1990's in the MonetDB, a column-store research prototype that has been
developed into a complete SQL- and XML/XQuery-compliant column-store DBMS
freely available in open source. Next to its column-store back-bone, MonetDB
focuses on high-performance hardware-conscious algorithms and novel
workload-adaptive query processing techniques such as "cracking",
"recycling" and run-time query optimization.

In this talk, we will provide detailed insight into MonetDB's column-store
architecture and query-processing technology as available in open-source,
and discuss ongoing research projects towards self-managing data management
technology.

While mainly intended as an introduction for new PhD students in the Database Architectures group (INS-1),

others that are interested in learning about MonetDB are more than welcome!