Contributors & Sponsors

 

Contributors

Since its inception, many contributions have been made to the MonetDB suite of programs by software architects, developers, and testers alike. MonetDB wouldn’t have come to life without their dedication and involvement; their names should be engraved in stone, but bits is all we have. Nameless and countless, but equally important, are the MonetDB users on our mailing lists, who challenge us with feature requests, who discover and disclose software bugs, and who help us overall with their valuable user experience insights.

 

Active contributors

Niels Nes1996-MonetDB architect and developer SQL front end
Arjen de Vries1998-2008, 2023-Various Multimedia Retrieval Modules, MonetDB Foundation
Sjoerd Mullender2002-MonetDB architect and developer ODBC, installers, Release Management
Ying Zhang2005-XRPC, SciQL, MonetDB R&D in various EU research projects, pipeline
Tina Grace2009-Designer of logo and website, branding advisor
Martin van Dinther2002, 2013-JDBC, ODBC, Quality assurance
Svetlin Stalinov2016-Frontend backend development, QA
Joeri van Ruth2017-Performance, hot snapshots
Tamas Bolner2020-PHP client library
Stefanos Mavros2021-Geometry module, Developer
Lucas Pereira2022-Performance, Developer
Dick Broekhuis2023-MonetDB Foundation, financial and legal advisor
Dominique Kuijl2023-MonetDB Foundation, financial and legal advisor
John Watchorn2025-Documentation

 

Past contributors

Arjen de Rijke2007-2025Skyserver, website, cluster
Bart Scheers2008-2025LOFAR database for transient detection, BlackGem, SKA
Yunus Koning2018-2024SQL, compression, MonetDB/e
Mitchell Weggemans2020-2024R-connector, Julia client connector
Panos Koutsourakis2015-2023Marvin, Cloud, CI/QA
Giovanni Valcarenghi2021-2023UX/UI Engineer, Social Media
Martin Kersten1993-2022MonetDB architect and developer of Monet3 and MonetDB 5
Pedro Ferreira2016-2022IOT, MonetDBLite, SQL
Gijs Molenaar2009-2010, 2020-2022Native Python API, Python bindings and embedded
Bernardo Mota2020-2022Time trails, IOT, Java Embedding
Nuno Filipe Faria2022-2022Grouped commit
Adrian Garcia Garcia2022-2022Benchmarks
Thodoris Zois2019-2021Logging
Giulia Frascaria2020-2020Documentation, performance
Stefan Manegold1997-2019MonetDB architect and developer XQuery, Performance, Quality Assurance
Lefteris Sidirourgos2007-2019Imprints, RDF, XML, Sampling, ordered index
Mark Raasveldt2015-2018Python integration and embedded
Richard Koopmanschap2015-2018Marvin, Blaeu
Hannes Mühleisen2012-2017R and Node.JS connectors, embedded R
Mrunal Gawade2011-2016Adaptive multicore optimization
Pham Duc2011-2016RDF benchmarking
Thibaut Sellam2012-2016Data exploration frontends
Foteini Alvanaki2013-2016GIS functionality, Point Clouds, array databases
Kostis Kyzirakos2013-2016GIS functionality,
Robin Cijvat2013-2016BAM/SAM loader for (DNA) sequence alignment
Dimitar Nedev2014-2016Cloud services, replication, 2PC
Romulo Goncalves2006-2015Replication, SQL, DataCell, Cyclotron, Point Clouds, and GIS
Eleni Petraki2011-2015Adaptive indexing
Yagiz Kargin2011-2015Data vault
Holger Pirk2011-2014Cross-device processing
Milena Ivanova2005-2013Skyserver, Recycler, Octopus
Stratos Idreos2006-2013Database cracking
Fabian Groffen2004-2012JDBC, PHP, Mapi, SQL+M5 Authorisation, Merovingian, User Support
Erietta Liarou2006-2012DataCell
Peter Boncz1994-2010MonetDB architect and developer Monet4, XQuery, XUpdate, RDF
Gabriele Modena2009-2010Native Ruby and PHP interfaces
Marcin Zukowski2004-2009X100, Actian, Snowflake
Steffen Goeldner2004-2008Perl API
Marco Antonelli2008-2008RDF
Tim Ruhl1999-2006Bug fixing at Data Distilleries
Wouter Scherphof2006-2006Open-GIS, GEOM
Menzo Windhouwer1998-2005URL, crawlers, Saxophone, Zeep(Sop)
Alex van Ballegooij2000-2005RAM front end (array query language)
Wouter Alink2005-2005XQuery web site
Albrecht Schmidt1999-2003XML storage
Johan List2001-2003XML storage and retrieval
Florian Waas1997-2001Dynamic loadable modules
Jonas Karlsson1997-2001SDDSs, dynamic loadable modules
Peter Bosch2000-2001Quad-trees
Wilco Quak1994-2000GIS modules
Carel van den Berg1994-1998ODMG front end

 

 

Sponsors

Subsidies provided by the following organisations have facilitated the development of MonetDB:

  • 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 scalable 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 (2011-2017).
  • The EU FP-7 Flagship project humanbrainproject.eu Human Brain Project project(2013-2016).
  • The EU FP-7 project LEO) on Linked Open Earth Observation Data for Precision Farming (2013-2015).
  • The EU FP-7 project CoherentPaaS for a Cloud based Database-as-a-Service (2013-2016).
  • The EU FP-7 project LDBC for Linked Data Benchmark Council (2013-).
  • The EU H2020 project ExaNest (2015-2018).
  • The EU H2020 project FashionBrain (2017-2019).
  • The EU H2020 project ACTiCLOUD (2017-2019).
  • The EU H2020 project VesselAI (2020-2023).

 

 

Donors

The development and maintenance of MonetDB has been made possible by the generosity of our donors. Their contributions have allowed us to invest in research, server maintenance, documentation, and comprehensive user support.

Individuals:

  • Giovanni Valcarenghi
  • Umberto Meglio
  • Vincent Bermel

Organisations: