Over its more than two decade of development, many people have contributed to the development of MonetDB, as architects, code developers or as guinea pigs, while developing applications on top of the often fragile development code base. MonetDB wouldn't have come to life without this dedication and involvement. Their names should be engraved in stone, but bits is all we have. Nameless and countless, but equally important are the people on the mailing lists, challenging us with bugs, feature requests, and being happy users.
| Active core contributors | ||
|---|---|---|
| Martin Kersten | 1993- | MonetDB architect and developer Monet3 and MonetDB 5 |
| Peter Boncz | 1994- | MonetDB architect and developer Monet4, XQuery, XUpdate, RDF |
| Niels Nes | 1996- | MonetDB architect and developer SQL front end |
| Stefan Manegold | 1997- | MonetDB architect and developer XQuery, Test Web, Quality Assurance |
| Sjoerd Mullender | 2002- | MonetDB architect and developer ODBC, installers, Release Management |
| Ying Zhang | 2005- | XRPC, SciQL, Solutions |
| Arjen de Rijke | 2007- | Skyserver, website, Cloud |
| Romulo Goncalves | 2006- | Replication, SQL, DataCell, Cyclotron, Point Clouds, and GIS |
| Lefteris Sidirourgos | 2007- | Imprints, RDF, XML, Sampling |
| Bart Scheers | 2008- | LOFAR database for transient detection |
| Tina Grace | 2009- | Designer of logo and website, branding advisor |
| Hannes Mühleisen | 2012- | R and Node.JS connectors, embedded R |
| Thibaut Sellam | 2012- | Data exploration frontends |
| Martin van Dinther | 2002, 2013- | ODBC driver, Quality assurance |
| Mark Raasveldt | 2015- | Python integration and embedded |
| Panos Koutsourakis | 2015- | Marvin, CoherentPaas |
| Richard Koopmanschap | 2015- | Marvin, Blaeu |
| Svetlin Stalinov | 2016- | Frontend development, Cloud |
| Pedro Ferreira | 2016- | IOT |
| Past contributors | ||
| Foteini Alvanaki | 2013-2016 | GIS functionality, Point Clouds, array databases |
| Kostis Kyzirakos | 2013-2016 | GIS functionality, |
| Dimitar Nedev | 2014-2016 | Cloud services, replication, 2PC |
| Robin Cijvat | 2013-2016 | BAM/SAM loader for (DNA) sequence alignment |
| Mrunal Gawade | 2011-2016 | Adapative multicore optimization |
| Pham Duc | 2011-2016 | RDF benchmarking |
| Eleni Petraki | 2011-2015 | Adaptive indexing |
| Yagiz Kargin | 2011-2015 | Data vault |
| Pham Duc | 2011-2016 | RDF benchmarking |
| Holger Pirk | 2011-2014 | Cross-device processing |
| Milena Ivanova | 2005-2013 | Skyserver, Recycler, Octopus |
| Fabian Groffen | 2004- 2012 | JDBC, PHP, Mapi, SQL+M5 Authorisation, Merovingian, User Support |
| Stratos Idreos | 2006-2013 | Database cracking |
| Erietta Liarou | 2006-2012 | DataCell |
| Gijs Molenaar | 2009-2010 | Native Python API |
| Gabriele Modena | 2009-2010 | Native Ruby and PHP interfaces |
| Arjen de Vries | 1998-2008 | Various Multimedia Retrieval Modules |
| Marcin Zukowski | 2004-2009 | X100 |
| Steffen Goeldner | 2004-2008 | Perl API |
| Marco Antonelli | 2008 | RDF |
| Tim Ruhl | 1999-2006 | Bug fixing at Data Distilleries |
| Wouter Scherphof | 2006 | Open-GIS, GEOM |
| Menzo Windhouwer | 1998-2005 | URL, crawlers, Saxophone, Zeep(Sop) |
| Alex van Ballegooij | 2000-2005 | RAM front end (array query language) |
| Wouter Alink | 2005 | XQuery web site |
| Johan List | 2001-2003 | XML storage and retrieval |
| Albrecht Schmidt | 1999-2003 | XML storage |
| Jonas Karlsson | 1997-2001 | SDDSs, dynamic loadable modules |
| Florian Waas | 1997-2001 | Dynamic loadable modules |
| Peter Bosch | 2000-2001 | Quad-trees |
| Wilco Quak | 1994-2000 | GIS modules |
| Carel van den Berg | 1994-1998 | ODMG front end |
Sponsors
The development of MonetDB has been made available by subsidies of several organizations. We are grateful to acknowledge them:
- Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (1993-) to facilitate the Database Architectures research group.
- The European Commission for the ESPRIT-III project Pythagoras (1992-1995), the ESPRIT-IV projects Mercury (1996-1998) and Keso (1996-1998).
- The High Performance Computing Netherlands (HPCN) project IMPACT (1996-1999).
- The Telematics Institute for funding the national project Digital Media Warehouses (1998-2003).
- The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for the AMIS project (1997-2001).
- The Ministry of Economic Affairs providing the means through the project MIA (1999-2003) and the Ministry of Education of the Netherlands providing the means using MultimediaN (2004-2009), and Bricks (2004-2009).
- The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for their support in the Focus program, project Cracking a scientific database (2006-2010).
- The European Erasmus program for internships.
- The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) on Graph Databases (2009-2013).
- The EU FP-7 project EMILI for their support in streaming data in SCADA systems (2009-2012).
- The EU FP-7 project TELEIOS geared at remote sensing applications (2010-2013).
- The EU FP-7 project PlanetData aimed at Linked Open Data initiative (2010-2013).
- The EU FP-7 project LOD2 aimed at scaleable Linked Open Data (2010-2014).
- The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for their material support on the SciLens infrastructure (2011-2016), (2016-2019).
- The COMMIT/ project (2011-).
- The European FET Flagship programme Human Brain Project (2013-).
- The EU FP-7 project LEO on Linked of Earth Observation Data for Precision Farming (2013-).
- The EU FP-7 project CoherentPaaS for a Cloud based Database-as-a-Service (2013-).
- The EU FP-7 project LDBC for Linked Data Benchmark Councel (2013-).
- The EU FP-7 Flagship project LDBC Human Brain Rampup project(2013-2016).
- The EU H2020 project LDBC ExaNest (2015-2018).
