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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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[Monetdb-announce] New (pre-) release "MonetDB_4-3-16"
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 09 Apr '04

09 Apr '04

Hello MonetDB users and developers, finally, the (pre-) release "MonetDB_4-3-16" is available on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/monetdb/) Changes since the last release candidate "MonetDB_4-3-16_rc06" are mainly bug fixes and performance improvements; for details, see the change log in the monetdb-changelogs mailing list (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs) Please use the new release and report any related bugs or problems through the SourceForge bug tracker (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) Downloads ========= [ For the time being, only the (generic) souce distribution and the binary ] [ distribution (rpm) for Linux are available. ] [ The binary distribution for Windows will follow on Tuesday, April 13. ] MonetDB-*-4.3.16-1_*.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-4.3.16-1_*.i686.rpm can be installed stand-alone, the MonetDB-server-4.3.16-1_*.i686.rpm requires the matching MonetDB-client-4.3.16-1_*.i686.rpm to be installed as well. To develop your own add-on modules, you additionally need to install the MonetDB-devel-4.3.16-1_*.i686.rpm. MonetDB-4.3.16.tar.gz --------------------- This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code; read HowToStart or HowToStart-Win32.txt for build instructions. Mknife-1.0.16.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) branch "MonetDB_4-3-16" 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_4-3-16_release" to get this very release, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-3-16" 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. Happy Easter! 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 candidate "MonetDB_4-3-16_rc06"
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

Hello MonetDB users and developers, a new release candidate "MonetDB_4-3-16_rc06" is available on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/monetdb/) Changes since the last release candidate "MonetDB_4-3-16_rc04" are mainly bug fixes and performance improvements; for details, see the change log in the monetdb-changelogs mailing list (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs) Please use the new release candidate and report any related bugs or problems through the SourceForge bug tracker (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468) Downloads ========= MonetDB-Setup-4.3.16_rc06.zip ----------------------------- This is a zip file which contains a file Setup.exe which is the Windows installer. Extract the zip file somewhere, and start Setup.exe to install MonetDB. This 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. [ The following packages do not (yet) include the SQL frontend. ] [ Respective packages for the SQL frontend will be available soon. ] MonetDB-*-4.3.16_rc06-1.*.rpm ----------------------------- These rpm's contain the binary distribution for Linux. The *.athlon.rpm were built on a RedHat-9 system and the *.i686.rpm were built on a SuSE-8.0 system; however, both should work on other Linux distributions as well (unless there are incompatibilities with dynamically linked system libraries...). The *.athlon.rpm should also work on a i686 machine, and vice versa, though you might need to overrule rpm's architecture check using "--ignorearch". While the MonetDB-client--4.3.16_rc06-1.*.rpm can be installed stand-alone, the MonetDB-server-4.3.16_rc06-1.*.rpm requires the matching MonetDB-client--4.3.16_rc06-1.*.rpm to be installed as well. To develop your own add-on modules, you additionally need to install the MonetDB-devel-4.3.16_rc06-1.*.rpm. MonetDB-4.3.16_rc06.tar.gz -------------------------- This is a gzip'ed tar file containing the source code; read HowToStart or HowToStart-Win32.txt for build instructions. CVS update ========== If you are already using the release candidate branch "MonetDB_4-3-16" 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_4-3-16_rc06" to get this very release candidate, or "cvs update -dP -rMonetDB_4-3-16" 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. 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] Two new MonetDB mailing lists @ SF
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

Hi MonetDB'ers, two new mailings for the MonetDB project have been created at SourceForge: - monetdb-developers (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-developers) is meant to be a new communication channel for all development related issues. Using the mailing list shall save us from the need to use and maintain lengthy To-/Cc-lists and allows a broader community to keep track of what developers currently take about. Please do use this list as of now. - monetdb-changelogs (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-changelogs) "the system" will regularly (e.g., on a weekly basis) post digests of MonetDB checkin messages (excluding "diffs"), hence, it provides a "low-traffic" alternate to the regular checkin lists for those of you, who want to stay up-to-date with recent changes of the code base. Additionally, "major" change logs between release( candidate)s will be posted here. 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] MonetDB CVS check-in guidelines
by Stefan.Manegold＠cwi.nl 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

[ My apologies for the partly redundant/overlapping recipient list. ] [ I wanted to be sure, that "all of you" receive this mail ... ;-) ] Dear (potential ;-) MonetDB developers, to minimize maintenance cost/overhead and avoid conflict/inconsistencies, we (the "core developers") decided to implement the following guidelines for check-ins to the MonetDB CVS repository on SourceForge. These guidelines are active until they are recalled. - All bug fixes go *only* to the release branch ("MonetDB_4-3-16"). - Bug fixes get into the main/head/development branch *only* by being propagated from the release branch. - I (i.e., *only* I ;-) will take care of propagating bug fixes back from the release branch to the main/head/ development branch on a regular basis --- most probably once a day. - "New features" go *only* to the main/head/development branch and are *never* propagated to the release branch. - All check-ins to the main/head/development branch and considered "new features", and hence, never make it into the release branch. Thank you very much in advance for your cooperation! 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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