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[Monetdb-announce] New release-candidates "MonetDB/XQuery 0.8.0_rc0", "MonetDB-SQL 2.8.0_rc0" & "MonetDB 4.8.0_rc0"
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 22 May '05

22 May '05

Dear MonetDB users and developers (and those who want to become either or both ;-), On May 30 2005, we plan to release our new open-source XQuery processor "MonetDB/XQuery 0.8", which is based on the "Pathfinder" XQuery-to-Relational Algebra compiler and powered by "MonetDB 4.8" (see http://pathfinder-xquery.org/ & http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/ins1/publications?request=abstract&key=BoGrMaRiTe:T… for scientific background information). In preparation for this release, I created the respective release-candidate branches "XQuery_0-8" (for pathfinder) "SQL_2-8" (for sql) "MonetDB_4-8" (for MonetDB) in our CVS repository on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=56967). The first release-candidate versions are tagged as "XQuery_0-8-0_rc0" (pathfinder) "SQL_2-8-0_rc0" (sql) "MonetDB_4-8-0_rc0" (MonetDB) respectively. All users are highly advised to use the new release-candidate( branche)s as of now (see below for details concerning download and/or CVS checkout/update). Please note, though, that as of MonetDB 4.8.0_rc0 the database format has changed. Hence, MonetDB 4.8.0_rc0 does no longer work with (old) databases created with previous versions! To use the new version, you need to start with a new "virgin" database (i.e., empty "dbfarm" directory). In case your are upgrading from some older version, and want/need to keep/migrate your database(s), please contact us via the MonetDB-Users mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-users (or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl). Detailed information about migrating old databases will follow at least with the official release in about a week. In order to produce a stable release, we higly appreciate any help in detecting, locating and fixing bugs. Hence, please use the new version intensively and spread the news about it to attract more interested testers --- a stable release will be your reward! (We have only ONE week left before the release!) To ask for support and report bugs or problems, please use the MonetDB-Users mailing list at SourceForge (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-users) or the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468); however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! For more details, background information, and documentation of MonetDB, MonetDB/SQL & MonetDB/XQuery, please visit the MonetDB web site: http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ . You'll find an overview of the most important changes since MonetDB 4.6 & MonetDB/SQL 2.6 at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/Version4.8/ (in preparation). A digest of the detailed CVS log messages will soon be available in the Monetdb-changelogs mailing list on SF: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs/ . Any support for the now obsolete "MonetDB 4.6.x" & "MonetDB/SQL 2.6.x" will stop as of now. Download ======== Pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions are available on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=305151 . CVS update ========== If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB, sql, or pathfinder, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-8-0_rc0" (MonetDB) "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-8-0_rc0" (sql) "cvs update -dP -rXQuery_0-8-0_rc0" (pathfinder) to get this very release, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-8" (MonetDB) "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-8" (sql) "cvs update -dP -rXQuery_0-8" (pathfinder) to get the most recent version in the release branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release, i.e., future "cvs update -dP" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update -dP" will get you again the latest version in the release branch. CVS check-ins ============= All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB, sql, and/or pathfinder are bound to go to the new release candidate branches ("MonetDB_4-8"/"SQL_2-8"/"XQuery_0-8"), only! On a regular basis, we will then take care of propagating these bug-fixes back to the respective development trunks. All new features are bound to go to the respective development trunks (and only there!). The release-candidate branches will become the new stable/release branches within about ONE week. As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! Stefan -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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[Monetdb-announce] Release of "MonetDB 4.6.0" & "MonetDB/SQL 2.6.0" (aka. "Valentijn")
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Dear MonetDB users and developers (and those who want to become either or both ;-), On the (late) evening of its due day, Monday February 14 2005, "MonetDB 4.6.0" + "MonetDB/SQL 2.6.0" (nicknamed "Valentijn") was born. After a thorough health check by the parents, nannies, and family doctors, "Valentijn" is now ready to conquer the world! For more details, background information, and documentation of MonetDB & MonetDB/SQL, please visit the MonetDB web site: http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ . You'll find an overview of the most important changes since MonetDB 4.4.2 & MonetDB/SQL 2.4.2 at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/Version4.6/ . A digest of the detailed CVS log messages will soon be available in the Monetdb-changelogs mailing list on SF: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs/ . All users are highly advised to use the new release. Please do not hesitate to ask for support and report bugs or problems, preferably via the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl; however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB and/or MonetDB/SQL you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! Any support for the now obsolete release candidates "MonetDB 4.6.0_rc2" & "MonetDB/SQL 2.6.0_rc2" (and any earlier versions) will stop as of now. Download ======== Pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions are now available on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=305151 . (Please bear with them, they're far too popular for their budget!) CVS update ========== If you are already using the release branches "MonetDB_4-6" and "SQL_2-6" from CVS, simply run "cvs update -dP" to update your code to the latest release version. If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB/MonetDB-SQL, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-6-0" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-6-0" to get this very release, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-6" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-6" to get the most recent version in the release branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release, i.e., future "cvs update -dP" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update -dP" will get you again the latest version in the release branch. CVS check-ins ============= All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB and/or SQL are bound to go to the new release branches ("MonetDB_4-6"/"SQL_2-6"), only. On a regular basis, we will then take care of propagating these bug-fixes back to the respective development trunk. All new features are bound to go to the respective development trunks (and only there!). As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! The MonetDB team. -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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Re: [Monetdb-announce] New release-candidates "MonetDB-4.6.0_rc0" & "MonetDB-SQL-2.6.0_rc0"
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Dear MonetDB users and developers (and those who want to become either or both ;-), As promised, pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions for MonetDB-4.6.0 & MonetDB-SQL-2.6.0 are now available for download from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967 The latest version is "release candidate 2" ("rc2"); some (minor) bugs have been fixes since "release candidate 0" ("rc0"). All users are highly advised (actually "requested" ;-) to use the new release-candidate( branche)s as of now. Please do not hesitate to ask for support and report bugs or problems, preferably via the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl; however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB-SQL you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! Stefan (on behalf of the MonetDB Development Team) -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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[Monetdb-announce] New release-candidates "MonetDB-4.6.0_rc0" & "MonetDB-SQL-2.6.0_rc0"
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

[ Please accept my apologies for this "broadcast mail". ] [ Future announcements concerning MonetDB and its elated projects will only ] [ go to the monetdb-announce mailing list ] [ (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-announce), so please ] [ do not forget to subscribe there, in case you are not subscribed, yet. ] Dear MonetDB users and developers (and those who want to become either or both ;-), In preparation for the release of the new MonetDB-4.6.0 & MonetDB-SQL-2.6.0 (planned for February 14 2005, cf. http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/), I just prepared the respective release-candidate branches "MonetDB_4-6" & "SQL_2-6" in our CVS repository on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=56967). The first release-candidate versions are tagged as "MonetDB_4-6-0_rc0" & "SQL_2-6-0_rc0", respectively. Pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions are not available, yet, but they will be made available for download with in a few days, and announced separately. All users are highly advised (actually "requested" ;-) to use the new release-candidate( branche)s as of now (see below for details concerning CVS checkout/update). Please do not hesitate to ask for support and report bugs or problems, preferably via the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl; however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB-SQL you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! Any support for the now obsolete "MonetDB-4.4.x" & "MonetDB-SQL_2.4.x" will stop as of now. Contents: ========= - Background - Change Logs - CVS update - CVS check-ins - Testing Background ========== Trying to stick to our road-map (http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/), we plan the release of MonetDB-4.6.0 + MonetDB-SQL-2.6.0 for February 14 2004. As with earlier "pre-releases" of MonetDB & MonetDB-SQL, we start with "release-candidates" to allow testing by a larger group of users before we finally make the actual releases. Hence, starting to use the release-candidates as soon as possible will only be for your own benefit ;-) According to our TestWeb (http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/TestWeb/), both MonetDB and SQL are doing quite well right now; hence, I don't expect any (major) problems. Change Logs =========== Information about the major changes since MonetDB-4.4.2 / MonetDB-SQL_2.4.2 will follow with the pre-packaged source- & binary-distributions within a few days. CVS update ========== If you are already using the release branches "MonetDB_4-4-0" and "SQL_2-4-0" from CVS, simply run "cvs update -dP" to update your code to this new release candidate version. If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB/MonetDB-SQL, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-6-0_rc0" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-6-0_rc0" to get this very release candidate, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-6" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-6" to get the most recent version in the release candidate branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release candidate, i.e., future "cvs update -dP" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update -dP" will get you again the latest version in the release candidate branch. CVS check-ins ============= All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB and/or SQL are bound to go to the new release-candidate branches ("MonetDB_4-6"/"SQL_2-6"), only. On a regular basis, I will then take care of propagating these bug-fixes back to the respective main branch. All new features are bound to go to the main branches (and only there!). This release-candidate branch will become the new stable/release branch within the next 3 weeks. Testing ======= Nightly automatic testing will proceed "as usual". See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/TestWeb/ for details. As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! Stefan -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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[Monetdb-announce] New (bug-fix) release "MonetDB-4.4.2" & "MonetDB-SQL-2.4.2" is available
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Contents: ========= - Release Notes - Change Logs - Downloads - CVS update - CVS checkins Release Notes ============= The new (bug-fix) release "MonetDB-4.4.2" plus "MonetDB-SQL-2.4.2" is available on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/monetdb/ . All users are highly advised (actually "requested" ;-) to use the new release as of now (see below for details concerning download and CVS checkout/update). Please do not hesitate to ask for support and report bugs or problems, preferably via the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl; however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB/SQL you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! You are also welcome to subscribe to any (or all) of the MonetDB related mailing lists on SF, cf. http://monetdb.cwi.nl/News/MailChannels/index.html http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=56967 Any support for the now obsolete release "MonetDB-4.4.0" plus "MonetDB-SQL-2.4.0" (as well as any earlier versions) will stop as of now. Change Logs =========== The changes in this release are as follows: This version is only focused on bug fixes. In the SQL front end a number of bugs affecting the SQL integrity were fixed. A bad BAT leak which could lead to a server crash was fixed. In the JDBC code a bug in handling non-ASCII characters was fixed. On the core MonetDB level the MIL cleanup was finished and many documentation improvements were made. For details, please check out the (coming) changelogs in the Monetdb-changelogs mailing list on SF: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs . Downloads ========= MonetDB-*-4.4.2-1.i686.rpm -------------------------- These rpm's contain the binary distribution for Linux on i?86 (IA-32) systems. The rpm's were built on a Fedora Core 2 system; however, they should work on other Linux distributions as well (unless there are incompatibilities with dynamically linked system libraries...). While the MonetDB-client-4.4.2-1.i686.rpm can be installed stand-alone, the MonetDB-server-4.4.2-1.i686.rpm requires the matching MonetDB-client-4.4.2-1.i686.rpm to be installed as well. To develop your own add-on modules, you additionally need to install the MonetDB-devel-4.4.2-1.i686.rpm. MonetDB-SQL*-2.4.2-1.i686.rpm ----------------------------- These rpm's contain the binary distribution for Linux on i?86 (IA-32) systems. The rpm's were built on a Fedora Core 2 system; however, they should work on other Linux distributions as well (unless there are incompatibilities with dynamically linked system libraries...). To get a working MonetDB-SQL server, you need to install the MonetDB-SQL-server-2.4.2-1.i686.rpm (which requires that the MonetDB-server-4.4.2-1.i686.rpm is already installed). MonetDB's "MapiClient" also serves as a textual SQL user interface: simply start it with "MapiClient --language=sql". The MonetDB-SQL-client-2.4.2-1.i686.rpm contains (preliminary) ODBC & JDBC support for MonetDB-SQL. The MonetDB-SQL-devel-2.4.2-1.i696.rpm contains header files for further development. MonetDB-4.4.2.tar.gz -------------------- This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code of MonetDB; read HowToStart or HowToStart-Win32.txt for build instructions. MonetDB-SQL-2.4.2.tar.gz ---------------------------- This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code of MonetDB/SQL; read HowToStart-SQL or HowToStart-SQL-Win32.txt for build instructions. MonetDB_JDBC-1.0.jar -------------------- Contains the MonetDB JDBC drive & client for MonetDB. See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/TechDocs/APIs/JDBC/index.html for details. Mknife-1.4.2.jar ---------------- Mknife is a 'Swiss army knife' GUI to ease the interaction with a running MonetDB server. See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/GetGoing/Usage/Mknife/ for details. MonetDB-Installer-4.4.2.zip --------------------------- This zip file contains a file Setup.exe which is the Windows installer. Extract the zip file somewhere, and start Setup.exe to install MonetDB. The installer also contains the SQL frontend which is automatically installed. Once installed, you can find shortcuts to the SQL server and SQL client in the Start menu. "MonetDB-Installer-4.4.2.zip" is built with Visual Studio .NET 2003, and hence requires the .NET runtime environment to be installed, too. (In case you need binary installers for other systems/platform, please feel free to contact us.) CVS update ========== If you are already using the release branches "MonetDB_4-4-0" and "SQL_2-4-0" from CVS, simply run "cvs update -dP" to update your code to this new release version. If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB/MonetDB-SQL, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-4-2" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-4-2" to get this very release, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-4-0" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-4-0" to get the most recent version in the release branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release, i.e., future "cvs update" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update" will get you again the latest version in the release branch. CVS checkins ============ All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB and/or SQL are bound to go to the release branches ("MonetDB_4-4-0"/"SQL_2-4-0"), first. On a regular basis, these bug-fixes will be propagated back to the respective main trunk. All new features are bound to go to the main trunks (and only there!). As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! The MonetDB development team -- | The MonetDB development team | | mailto:monet@cwi.nl | | http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ | | http://sf.net/projects/monetdb/ |

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[Monetdb-announce] Official release of "MonetDB-4.4.0" & "MonetDB-SQL-2.4.0"
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

Announcement ============ TITLE: MonetDB 4.4.0 released WHAT: MonetDB is an open source high-performance database system developed by CWI, the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science Research of The Netherlands. It was designed to provide high performance on complex queries against large databases, e.g. combining tables with hundreds of columns and multi-million rows. As such, MonetDB is able to be used in application areas that performance-wise are no-go areas for traditional database technology in a real-time manner. MonetDB has been successfully applied in high performance applications for data mining, OLAP, GIS, XML Query, and text and multimedia retrieval. MonetDB achieves this high performance using innovations at all layers of a DBMS: a storage model based on vertical fragmentation, a modern CPU-tuned vectorized query execution architecture that often gives MonetDB a more than 10-fold raw speed advantage on the same algorithm compared with a typical interpreter-based RDBMS. MonetDB is one of the first database systems to focus its query optimization effort on exploiting CPU caches. MonetDB also features automatic and self-tuning indexes, run-time query optimization, a modular software architecture, etc. In-depth information on the technical innovations in the design and implementation of MonetDB can be found in our digital library. AUDIENCE: MonetDB is of particular interest to researchers, system developers and students, interested in developing novel query-dominant applications on a flexible database engine. Database application developers find a mature SQL implementation with common interfaces (JDBC,ODBC,php...) to port their software. PARTNERS: MonetDB 4.4 marks the first official release of the MonetDB product family, developed together with our partners around the world: - Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst develops PROXIMITY, an open source relational datamining solution on top of MonetDB. http://kdl.cs.umass.edu/proximity/ - SPSS sells CRM solutions with data mining techogy based on MonetDB. http://www.spss.com/datadistilleries/ - Univ. Konstantz develops PATHFINDER, an open source XQuery processor on top of MonetDB (hosted in the MonetDB SourceForge Repository). http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/dbis/research/pathfinder/ Beta release scheduled for Dec 2004. FUTURE: CWI keeps working on MonetDB and has a roadmap of significant innovations to be introduced in future major relases. These innovations encompass changes with respect to query execution paradigms tuned for modern processors, pluggable optimizers, and novel query languages and storage backends. LICENSE: MonetDB is covered by the Mozilla license, giving unrestricted access to the code base for inclusion in (commercial) products. WHERE: The MonetDB homepage : http://monetdb.cwi.nl The MonetDB repository : http://sf.net/project/monetdb The MonetDB technology : http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Research/Articles The MonetDB mailing lists: http://monetdb.cwi.nl/News/MailChannels/index.html October 01, 2004 The MonetDB development team Remaining Contents: =================== - Release Notes - Change Logs - Downloads - CVS update - CVS checkins Release Notes ============= The first "official" public release "MonetDB-4.4.0" plus "MonetDB-SQL-2.4.0" is available on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/monetdb/ . All users are highly advised (actually "requested" ;-) to use the new release as of now (see below for details concerning download and CVS checkout/update). Please do not hesitate to ask for support and report bugs or problems, preferably via the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl; however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB/SQL you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! You are also welcome to subscribe to any (or all) of the MonetDB related mailing lists on SF, cf. http://monetdb.cwi.nl/News/MailChannels/index.html http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=56967 Any support for the now obsolete release candidates "MonetDB-4.4.0_rc2" & "MonetDB-SQL-2.4.0_rc2" (as well as any earlier versions) will stop as of now. Change Logs =========== In MonetDB, the major change since the release candidate MonetDB-4.4.0_rc2 are mainly bug fixes. In SQL, the coverage of SQL-92 & SQL-99 standard, and the functionality of the JDBC & ODBC drivers have been extended. For details, please check out the (coming) changelogs in the Monetdb-changelogs mailing list on SF: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs . Downloads ========= MonetDB-*-4.4.0-1.i686.rpm -------------------------- These rpm's contain the binary distribution for Linux on i?86 (IA-32) systems. The rpm's were built on a Fedora Core 2 system; however, they should work on other Linux distributions as well (unless there are incompatibilities with dynamically linked system libraries...). While the MonetDB-client-4.4.0-1.i686.rpm can be installed stand-alone, the MonetDB-server-4.4.0-1.i686.rpm requires the matching MonetDB-client-4.4.0-1.i686.rpm to be installed as well. To develop your own add-on modules, you additionally need to install the MonetDB-devel-4.4.0-1.i686.rpm. MonetDB-SQL*-2.4.0-1.i686.rpm ----------------------------- These rpm's contain the binary distribution for Linux on i?86 (IA-32) systems. The rpm's were built on a Fedora Core 2 system; however, they should work on other Linux distributions as well (unless there are incompatibilities with dynamically linked system libraries...). To get a working MonetDB-SQL server, you need to install the MonetDB-SQL-server-2.4.0-1.i686.rpm (which requires that the MonetDB-server-4.4.0-1.i686.rpm is already installed). MonetDB's "MapiClient" also serves as a textual SQL user interface: simply start it with "MapiClient --language=sql". The MonetDB-SQL-client-2.4.0-1.i686.rpm contains (preliminary) ODBC & JDBC support for MonetDB-SQL. The MonetDB-SQL-devel-2.4.0-1.i696.rpm contains header files for further development. MonetDB-4.4.0.tar.gz -------------------- This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code of MonetDB; read HowToStart or HowToStart-Win32.txt for build instructions. MonetDB-SQL-2.4.0.tar.gz ---------------------------- This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code of MonetDB/SQL; read HowToStart-SQL or HowToStart-SQL-Win32.txt for build instructions. MonetDB_JDBC-1.0.jar -------------------- Contains the MonetDB JDBC drive & client for MonetDB. See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/TechDocs/APIs/JDBC/index.html for details. Mknife-1.4.0.jar ---------------- Mknife is a 'Swiss army knife' GUI to ease the interaction with a running MonetDB server. See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/GetGoing/Usage/Mknife/ for details. MonetDB-Installer-4.4.0.zip --------------------------- This zip file contains a file Setup.exe which is the Windows installer. Extract the zip file somewhere, and start Setup.exe to install MonetDB. The installer also contains the SQL frontend which is automatically installed. Once installed, you can find shortcuts to the SQL server and SQL client in the Start menu. "MonetDB-Installer-4.3.18.zip" is built with Visual Studio .NET 2003, and hence requires the .NET runtime environment to be installed, too. (In case you need binary installers for other systems/platform, please feel free to contact us.) CVS update ========== If you are already using the release branches "MonetDB_4-4-0" and "SQL_2-4-0" from CVS, simply run "cvs update -dP" to update your code to this new release version. If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB/MonetDB-SQL, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-4-0_release" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-4-0_release" to get this very release, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-4-0" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-4-0" to get the most recent version in the release branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release, i.e., future "cvs update" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update" will get you again the latest version in the release branch. CVS checkins ============ All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB and/or SQL are bound to go to the new release branches ("MonetDB_4-4-0"/"SQL_2-4-0"), first. On a regular basis, these bug-fixes will be propagated back to the respective main trunk. All new features are bound to go to the main trunks (and only there!). As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! The MonetDB development team -- | The MonetDB development team | | mailto:monet@cwi.nl | | http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ | | http://sf.net/project/monetdb/ |

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[Monetdb-announce] New release-candidates "MonetDB-4.4.0_rc0" & "MonetDB-SQL-2.4.0_rc0"
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

Dear MonetDB users and developers (and those who want to become either or both ;-), We are approaching the official release of MonetDB-4.4.0 & SQL-2.4.0 (planned for September 30 2004)! In the CVS repository on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=56967), I created the release-candidate branches "MonetDB_4-4-0" & "SQL_-2-4-0" for MonetDB and MonetDB/SQL, respectively; the first release-candidate versions are tagged as "MonetDB_4-4-0_rc0" & "SQL_2-4-0_rc0", respectively. I also released the new release-candidates "MonetDB_4-4-0_rc0" & "MonetDB-SQL_2-4-0_rc0", which are available for download from SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967). (Binary versions for Windows will follow soon.) All users are highly advised (actually "requested" ;-) to use the new release-candidate( branche)s as of now (see below for detail concerning download and CVS checkout/update). Please do not hesitate to ask for support and report bugs or problems, preferably via the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl; however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB/SQL you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! Any support for the now obsolete "MonetDB_4-3-18" & "MonetDB-SQL_2.0.18" will stop as of now. Contents: ========= - Background - Change Logs - Downloads - CVS update - CVS checkins - Testing Background ========== Trying to stick to our roadmap (http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/index.html), we plan the "official" release of MonetDB-4.4.0 + MonetDB-SQL-2.4.0 for September 30 2004. As with earlier "pre-releases" of MonetDB & MonetDB-SQL, we start with "release-candidates" to allow testing by a larger group of users before we finally make the actual releases. Hence, starting to use the release-candidates as soon as possible will only be for your own benefit ;-) According to our TestWeb (http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/TestWeb/index.html), both MonetDB and SQL are doing quite well right now; hence, I don't expect any (major) problems (see also "MIL clean-up" below). Change Logs =========== In MonetDB, the major change since MonetDB-4.3.18 is an extensive clean-up of the MIL syntax, a summary of which is given below. Furthermore, several (smaller) features have been added, the MAPI protocol has been extended/improved, and (of course) more bugs were fixed. In SQL, the coverage of SQL-92 & SQL-99 standard and the functionality of the JDBC & ODBC drivers have been extended. For details, please check out the changelogs in the Monetdb-changelogs mailing list on SF (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs). MIL clean-up ------------ - By improving the context-awareness of the parser, the namespace for variables has been made independent of the namespace for commands/procs (basically, the latter now always require parentheses!). Thus, you can have variables and commands with the same name. All function invocation conventions work, and behave as expected: fcn(x,y); x.fcn(y); fcn(x); x.fcn(); fcn(); - By improving the context-awareness of the parser, i := i-1; now works!!! That is, from the context, the parser decides whether the - is part of a following constant, or an infix operator. - proc definitions now always must have a full signature. This means that all parameters must be specified. A return type is obligatory; if there none one must write 'void'. The MEL syntax is used here; including variable-number of arguments. e.g. proc fcn(str a) : void { ls(a); } proc fcn(any a) : void ls(a); proc fcn(any::1 a) : any::1 return a proc fcn(..int...) : int return $($0); proc fcn(int pos, ..any::1..) : any::1 return $(pos); Note that the ugly := syntax is no longer supported. Note that the function body can be any valid MIL statement (not necessarily a sequential block). - automatic identifier to bat reference conversion is scrapped. Say you have a BAT (not a variable!) named "XYZ"; XYZ.print(); does not work any more; instead you need to use bat("XYZ").print; To alleviate sys.mx, variables for all monet_* system bats have been introduced, so you can refer to those still with an identifier. - Variables must now be introduced explicitly: VAR abc; VAR cde := 0; - Accelerator names (hash,index) were removed from the global namespace. The accbuild() and other commands now just expect strings, if you specify an accelerator. These are additional measures to separate the naming spaces. Only the atom names claim identifiers both from the command/proc and variables spaces. - MORE CONSTRUCTS REMOVED: (1) [b~], you should use b.mark(nil) (2) [~b], you should use b.reverse.mark(nil).reverse (3) [b~42], you should use b.project(42) (4) [42~b], you should use b.reverse.project(42).reverse (5) [a?b:c], you should use [ifthenelse](a,b,c) (6) [a?b:c], you should use [ifthenelse](a,b,c) (7) [a?b:], you should use [ifthen](a,b) (8) [a?:c], you should use [ifelse](a,c) Downloads ========= MonetDB-*-4.4.0_rc0-1.i686.rpm ------------------------------ These rpm's contain the binary distribution for Linux. The rpm's were built on a Fedora Core 2 system; however, they should work on other Linux distributions as well (unless there are incompatibilities with dynamically linked system libraries...). While the MonetDB-client-4.4.0_rc0-1.i686.rpm can be installed stand-alone, the MonetDB-server-4.4.0_rc0-1.i686.rpm requires the matching MonetDB-client-4.4.0_rc0-1.i686.rpm to be installed as well. To develop your own add-on modules, you additionally need to install the MonetDB-devel-4.4.0_rc0-1.i686.rpm. MonetDB-SQL*-2.4.0_rc0-1.i686.rpm --------------------------------- These rpm's contain the binary distribution for Linux. The rpm's were built on a Fedora Core 2 system; however, they should work on other Linux distributions as well (unless there are incompatibilities with dynamically linked system libraries...). To get a working MonetDB-SQL server, you need to install the MonetDB-SQL-server-2.4.0_rc0-1.i686.rpm (which requires that the MonetDB-server-4.4.0_rc0-1.i686.rpm is already installed). MonetDB's "MapiClient" also serves as a textual SQL user interface: simply start it with "MapiClient --language=sql". The MonetDB-SQL-client-2.4.0_rc0-1.RedHat.rpm contains (preliminary) ODBC & JDBC support for MonetDB-SQL. The MonetDB-SQL-devel-2.4.0_rc0-1.rpm contains header files for further development. MonetDB-4.4.0_rc0.tar.gz ------------------------ This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code of MonetDB; read HowToStart or HowToStart-Win32.txt for build instructions. MonetDB-SQL-2.4.0_rc0.tar.gz ---------------------------- This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code of MonetDB/SQL; read HowToStart-SQL or HowToStart-SQL-Win32.txt for build instructions. Mknife-1.4.0_rc0.jar -------------------- Mknife is a 'Swiss army knife' GUI to ease the interaction with a running MonetDB server. See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/GetGoing/Usage/Mknife/ for details. Binary installers for Windows will follow soon. CVS update ========== If you are already using the release candidate branches "MonetDB_4-3-18" and "SQL_2-0-18" from CVS, simply run "cvs update -dP" to update your code to this new release candidate version. If you are already using a CVS version of MonetDB/MonetDB-SQL, you can run either "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-4-0_rc0" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-4-0_rc0" to get this very release candidate, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-4-0" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-4-0" to get the most recent version in the release candidate branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release candidate, i.e., future "cvs update" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update" will get you again the latest version in the release candidate branch. CVS checkins ============ All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB and/or SQL are bound to go to the new release-candidate branches ("MonetDB_4-4-0"/"SQL_2-4-0"), only. On a regular basis, I will then take care of propagating these bug-fixes back to the respective main branch All new features are bound to go to the main branches (and only there!). This release-candidate branch will become the new stable/release branch within the next 2.5 weeks. Testing ======= The release-candidate branches will be tested every night. All (no-SQL) add-on modules that are tested every night will be tested with the release-candidate branch of MonetDB, *only*, unless the very maintainer(s) of any add-on module request differently. The main/development branches of MonetDB and SQL will also be tested every night. As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! Stefan -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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[Monetdb-announce] New (pre-) release "MonetDB-4.3.18" & "MonetDB-SQL-2.0.18"
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 07 Jul '04

07 Jul '04

Dear MonetDB users and developers, finally, the new (pre-) release "MonetDB-4.3.18" plus "MonetDB-SQL-2.0.18" is available on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/monetdb/). All users are highly advised (actually "requested" ;-) to use the new release as of now (see below for detail concerning download and CVS checkout/update). Please do not hesitate to ask for support and report bugs or problems, preferably via the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl; however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB/SQL you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! Any support for the now obsolete release candidates "MonetDB-4.3.18_rc02" & "MonetDB-SQL-2.0.18_rc02" will stop as of now. Contents: ========= - Background - Change Logs - Downloads - CVS update - CVS checkins Background ========== Sticking to our roadmap (http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/index.html), we release MonetDB-4.3.18 + SQL-2.0.18 as "snapshots", as "larger changes" are expected to happen during the summer, heading for the first official release after the summer. The release candidates ("MonetDB-4.3.18_rc02" & "MonetDB-SQL-2.0.18_rc02") have been tested during the past 4 weeks, and reported bugs have been fixed. Thank you very much for all your contributions! According to our TestWeb (http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/TestWeb/index.html), both MonetDB and SQL are working fine. Change Logs =========== In MonetDB, changes since MonetDB-4.3.18_rc02 / MonetDB-SQL-2.0.18_rc02 are mainly bug fixes, more robust memory management, and improved/extended documentation. For detail, please check out the changelogs in the Monetdb-changelogs mailing list on SF (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs). Downloads ========= MonetDB-*-4.3.18-1*.i686.rpm ---------------------------- These rpm's contain the binary distribution for Linux. The *RedHat* rpm's were built on a RedHat-9 system and the *SuSE* rpm's were built on a SuSE-8.1 system; however, both should work on other Linux distributions as well (unless there are incompatibilities with dynamically linked system libraries...). While the MonetDB-client-4.3.18-1_*.i686.rpm can be installed stand-alone, the MonetDB-server-4.3.18-1_*.i686.rpm requires the matching MonetDB-client-4.3.18-1_*.i686.rpm to be installed as well. To develop your own add-on modules, you additionally need to install the MonetDB-devel-4.3.18-1_*.i686.rpm. MonetDB-SQL*-2.0.18-1*.i686.rpm ------------------------------- These rpm's contain the binary distribution for Linux. The *.rpm were built on a RedHat-9 system; however, they should work on other Linux distributions as well (unless there are incompatibilities with dynamically linked system libraries...). To get a working MonetDB-SQL server, you need to install the MonetDB-SQL-server-2.0.18-1beta_RedHat.rpm (which requires that the MonetDB-server-4.3.18-1_*.rpm is already installed). MonetDB's "MapiClient" also serves as a textual SQL user interface: simply start it with "MapiClient --language=sql". The MonetDB-SQL-client-2.0.18-1beta_RedHat.rpm contains (preliminary) ODBC & JDBC support for MonetDB-SQL. The MonetDB-SQL-devel-2.0.18-1beta.athlon.rpm contains header files for further development. MonetDB-4.3.18.tar.gz --------------------- This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code of MonetDB; read HowToStart or HowToStart-Win32.txt for build instructions. MonetDB-SQL-2.0.18.tar.gz ------------------------- This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code of MonetDB/SQL; read HowToStart-SQL or HowToStart-SQL-Win32.txt for build instructions. MonetDB-Installer-4.3.18.zip MonetDB-Setup-4.3.18.zip ---------------------------- These two zip files contain each a file Setup.exe which is the Windows installer. Extract the zip file somewhere, and start Setup.exe to install MonetDB. Both installers also contains the SQL frontend which is automatically installed. Once installed, you can find shortcuts to the SQL server and SQL client in the Start menu. The only difference between both installers is the following: "MonetDB-Installer-4.3.18.zip" is built with Visual Studio .NET 2003, and hence requires the .NET runtime environment to be installed, too; "MonetDB-Setup-4.3.18.zip" is built with Visual Studio 6 plus InstallShield, and hence works without any extra runtime environment. Mknife-1.0.18.jar ----------------- Mknife is a 'Swiss army knife' GUI to ease the interaction with a running MonetDB server. See http://monetdb.cwi.nl/GetGoing/Usage/Mknife/ for details. CVS update ========== If you are already using the release (candidate) branches "MonetDB_4-3-18" and "SQL_2-0-18" from CVS, simply run "cvs update -dP" to update your code to this new release version. If you are using any other CVS version, you can either run "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-3-18_release" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-0-18_release" to get this very release, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-3-18" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-0-18" to get the most recent version in the release branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release, i.e., future "cvs update" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update" will get you again the latest version in the release branch. CVS checkins ============ Only *major* bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB and/or SQL are allowed to go to the new release branches ("MonetDB_4-3-18"/"SQL_2-0-18"). If necessary, I will then take care of propagating these bug-fixes back to the respective main branch. All other changes are bound to go to the main branches (and only there!). As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! Stefan -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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[Monetdb-announce] New release-candidates MonetDB-4.3.18_rc02 & SQL-2.0.18_rc02
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Dear MonetDB users and developers, I just created the new release-candidate branches "MonetDB_4-3-18" and "SQL_2-0-18" for MonetDB and SQL, respectively. The current versions are tagged as "MonetDB_4-3-18_rc02" and "SQL_2-0-18_rc02", respectively. I also released the new release-candidates "MonetDB_4-3-18_rc02" and "SQL_2-0-18_rc02", which are available for download from SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967). All users are highly advised (actually "requested" ;-) to use the new release-candidate( branche)s as of now (see below for detail concerning download and CVS checkout/update). Please do not hesitate to ask for support and report bugs or problems, preferably via the bug tracing system at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) or via email to monet(a)cwi.nl; however, please always state clearly, which version of MonetDB/SQL you are using (as the Mserver tells you at startup)! Any support for the now obsolete "Monet_4-3-16" will stop as of now. Contents: ========= - Announcement - Background - Change Logs - Downloads - CVS update - CVS checkins - Testing Background ========== Trying to stick to our roadmap (http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/Roadmap/index.html), we plan to release MonetDB-4.3.18 + SQL-2.0.18 before end of June. These releases are mainly considered to be snapshots, as "larger changes" are expected to happen during the summer. As with MonetDB-4.3.16, we start with "release-candidates" to allow testing by a larger group of users before we finally make the actual releases within the next 1-2 weeks. Hence, starting the use the release-candidates as soon as possible will only be for your own benefit ;-) According to our TestWeb (http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/TestWeb/index.html), both MonetDB and SQL are doing quite well right now; hence, I don't expect any (major) problems. Change Logs =========== In MonetDB, changes since MonetDB-4.3.16 are mainly bug fixes, more robust memory management, and improved/extended documentation. In SQL, changes are more extensive. For detail, please check out the changelogs in the Monetdb-changelogs mailing list on SF (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs). Downloads ========= MonetDB-*-4.3.18-1_*.i686.rpm ----------------------------- These rpm's contain the binary distribution for Linux. The *RedHat* rpm's were built on a RedHat-9 system and the *SuSE* rpm's were built on a SuSE-8.1 system; however, both should work on other Linux distributions as well (unless there are incompatibilities with dynamically linked system libraries...). While the MonetDB-client-4.3.18-1_*.i686.rpm can be installed stand-alone, the MonetDB-server-4.3.18-1_*.i686.rpm requires the matching MonetDB-client-4.3.18-1_*.i686.rpm to be installed as well. To develop your own add-on modules, you additionally need to install the MonetDB-devel-4.3.18-1_*.i686.rpm. MonetDB-SQL*-2.0.18-1_*.i686.rpm -------------------------------- These rpm's contain the binary distribution for Linux. The *.rpm were built on a RedHat-9 system; however, they should work on other Linux distributions as well (unless there are incompatibilities with dynamically linked system libraries...). To get a working MonetDB-SQL server, you need to install the MonetDB-SQL-server-2.0.18-1beta.RedHat.rpm (which requires that the MonetDB-server-4.3.18-1.*.rpm is already installed). MonetDB's "MapiClient" also serves as a textual SQL user interface: simply start it with "MapiClient --language=sql". The MonetDB-SQL-client-2.0.18-1beta.RedHat.rpm contains (preliminary) ODBC & JDBC support for MonetDB-SQL. The MonetDB-SQL-devel-2.0.18-1beta.athlon.rpm contains header files for further development. MonetDB-4.3.18.tar.gz --------------------- This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code of MonetDB; read HowToStart or HowToStart-Win32.txt for build instructions. MonetDB-SQL-2.0.18.tar.gz ------------------------- This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code of MonetDB/SQL; read HowToStart-SQL or HowToStart-SQL-Win32.txt for build instructions. MonetDB-Installer-4.3.18_rc02.zip MonetDB-Setup-4.3.18_rc02.zip --------------------------------- These two zip files contain each a file Setup.exe which is the Windows installer. Extract the zip file somewhere, and start Setup.exe to install MonetDB. Both installers also contains the SQL frontend which is automatically installed. Once installed, you can find shortcuts to the SQL server and SQL client in the Start menu. The only difference between both installers is that "MonetDB-Installer-4.3.18_rc02.zip" is built with Visual Studio .NET, and hence requires the .NET runtime environment to be installed, too; while "MonetDB-Setup-4.3.18_rc02.zip" is built with Visual Studio 6 plus InstallShield, and hence works without any extra runtime environment. CVS update ========== If you are already using the release candidate branches "MonetDB_4-3-18" and "SQL_2-0-18" from CVS, simply run "cvs update -dP" to update your code to this new release candidate version. If you are using any other CVS version, you can either run "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-3-18_rc02" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-0-18_rc02" to get this very release candidate, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-3-18" "cvs update -dP -rSQL_2-0-18" to get the most recent version in the release candidate branch. The difference is, that via the first option, you are "stuck" with this very release candidate, i.e., future "cvs update" (without "-r..." or "-A") will not change your checked-out version; via the second option, however, future "cvs update" will get you again the latest version in the release candidate branch. CVS checkins ============ All bug fixes (and only these!) on MonetDB and/or SQL are bound to go to the new release-candidate branches ("MonetDB_4-3-18"/"SQL_2-0-18"), only. On a regular basis, I will then take care of propagating these bug-fixes back to the respective main branch All new features are bound to go to the main branches (and only there!). This release-candidate branch will become the new stable/release branch within the next 1-2 weeks. Testing ======= The release-candidate branches will be tested every night. All (no-SQL) add-on modules that are tested every night will be tested with the release-candidate branch of MonetDB, *only*, unless the very maintainer(s) of any add-on module request differently. The main/development branches of MonetDB and SQL will also be tested every night. As usually, any (constructive;-) comments and feedback are more than welcome! Enjoy! Stefan -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |

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[Monetdb-announce] Windows installer for MonetDB 4.3.16 available
by Sjoerd Mullender 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

As promised by Stefan in his announcement for the MonetDB 4.3.16 release, the Windows installer is now also available on SourceForge. -- Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd(a)acm.org>

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