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Triggered by the abundant interests in our MonetDB/R integration solution worldwide, we have been working on ways to make it easier to try out. One solution is based on the emerging standard for (lightweight) virtualization, called Docker containers. MonetDB/R is now available as a Docker container from the MonetDB team. If you are familiar with Docker, try out our "database-in-a-box".

To start, pull the MonetDB container image from the Docker Hub Registry:

docker pull monetdb/monetdb-r-docker

Next, simply run it:

To deal with the deluge of data produced by modern sequencers, life science researchers are turning to analytical databases. To help with this (really) big data problem, the MonetDB team has been working together with the CWI Life Sciences group [2]. The result collaboration is the MonetDB/BAM module - a bioinformatics extension, designed to easily load and quickly process genomic data. The authors have also tested the new module, publishing a case study on Ebola virus diversity [1].

As the Node.js community is growing stronger, and we have started to experiment with the framework ourselves, we deem it useful for Node.js users to have a native MonetDB connector. Using MonetDB as the data store for your analytical web app can improve your user appreciation significantly.

This is the current list of Node.js modules developed by the MonetDB team:

Martin Kersten received "The Wildest Idea" award at the Gong Show of the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) 2015. The award is given for his thought provoking "Big Data Space Fungus", which addresses data rotting in modern data management pipelines.

The MonetDB team has been working on ways to simplify the deployment of MonetDB. As a first step, we are releasing a virtual machine image of our MonetDB Analytical Database with R.