September 2015 - developers-list

Inserting in 'raw' mode??
by Vijay Krishna 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Hi, I was analysing the Insert performance of MonetDB... I am trying to optimize a process where in a single tuple has to be inserted into a table of 1200 columns, which takes about 7.5 seconds presently... The query has values for only 5 columns out of 1200, yet the speed is still the same.. Is it possible to reduce this time even?? While digging on this, I came across this thread.. https://www.monetdb.org/pipermail/users-list/2005-August/000139.html *What is the insert speed relatively to other DBs? > * > Using SQL, with the current version we won't compete very well. We get > much more acceptable speeds in 'raw' mode, where lots of the parsing > overhead is removed. > > Can anyone please help me understand what is the 'raw' mode that is explained in this thread?? I am using Oct-2014 version on a CentOS machine with 128 GB RAM... Thanks & Regards, Vijayakrishna.P. Mobile : (+91) 9500402305.

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Why doesn't MonetDB exploit SIMD feature?
by Xu,Wenjian 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Hi, We know that MonetDB excels in application where the database hot-set can be largely held in main-memory, since the physical operators (e.g., hashjoin, sort) are highly optimized for main-memory. But it is strange to me that these operators do not utilize SIMD which a performance-critical feature of modern CPUs. For example, MonetDB use *timsort* as its underlying stable sort algorithm (do_ssort() in gdk/gdk_ssort_impl.h), but I cannot find any SIMD instructions there. Why doesn't MonetDB exploit SIMD feature? or did I miss something? In paper 'Vectorwise: Beyond Column Stores', the authors claim that X100/Vectorwise use SIMD instructions. So my follow-up question is that whether any of X100/Vectorwise's technologies/features has been integrated into MonetDB's code base. Thank you. Best regards, Xu, Wenjian

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DbVisualizer support for MonetDB
by Robert Koch 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

Hi Folks, DbVisualizer is my preferred GUI to MonetDB. DbVis offers capability to write own database profiles for specific DB's. Today I committed a MonetDB database profile for DbVisualizer. https://github.com/dbvisualizer/dbvis-database-profiles/tree/master/monetdb Anyone familiar to DbVis can import and/or improve this profile. There's a free DbVis version, but the Pro offers much more features, which make life easier. BTW, I'm not working for them. :-) Please feel free to write me your desired features by mail or directly into the MD-file inside the monetdb-directory. If possible, I will implement it inte the profile. Best regards Mario

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Announcement: New Jul2015 Feature release of MonetDB suite
by Sjoerd Mullender 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

The MonetDB team at CWI/MonetDB BV is pleased to announce the Jul2015 feature release of the MonetDB suite of programs. More information about MonetDB can be found on our website at <http://www.monetdb.org/>. For details on this release, please see the release notes at <http://www.monetdb.org/Downloads/ReleaseNotes>. As usual, the download location is <http://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/>. Jul 2015 feature release MonetDB5 Server * Implemented batcalc.min and batcalc.max. Made calc.min and calc.max generic so that no other implementations are needed. * Removed function batcalc.ifthen. Build Environment * Upgraded the license to the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. Client Package * Added a new output format to mclient: --format=expanded (or -fx). In this format, column values are shown in full and below each other. MonetDB Common * BUNtvar and BUNhvar macros no longer work for TYPE_void columns. * Changed interfaces of a lot of GDK-level functions. When they modify a BAT, don't return the same BAT or NULL, but instead return GDK_SUCCEED or GDK_FAIL. * Changed a bunch of hash-related functions to work on the tail column. The functions that have been changed to work on the tail column are: BAThash, BATprepareHash, HASHgonebad, HASHins, and HASHremove. Java Module * Improved JDBC driver to not throw NullPointerException anymore when calling isNullable() or getPrecision() or getScale() or getColumnDisplaySize() or getSchemaName() or getTableName() or getColumnClassName() on a ResultSetMetaData object. * We now compile the Java classes using the latest Java 1.8 version, and we tell it to compile for Java 1.7. SQL * Differences between time, timestamp, and date values now return properly typed interval types (second or month intervals) instead of integers. * Added support for 128-bit integers (called HUGEINT) on platforms that support this. * Removed support for the mseed library. * Removed support for RDF. * Removed DataCell. It was experimental code that was never enabled. Bug Fixes * 2618: Implement master slave scheme * 3361: constants as MAL function parameters prevent intermediate reuse * 3364: Cannot set role back to a user's default role * 3365: Unable to grant object privileges while having a non-default current_role * 3440: Sequence type errors * 3449: mserver crash on start - Freebsd 10 amd64 * 3476: Cannot revoke object access * 3496: autocompletion table names does not work correctly * 3556: when 2 multiplexed functions in MAL plan, only one is mapped correctly to bat<mod>.function primitive * 3564: Request: add support for postgresql specific scalar function: split_part(string text, delimiter text, field int) * 3625: SIGSEGV because mat array can overrun in opt_mergetable.c * 3627: SQRT in CASE does not work as of Oct2014 * 3654: configure --enable-fits requires extra commands after creating a database instance * 3673: mclient 'expanded' row formatter * 3674: Obfuscate event tracing * 3679: No error is given when incorrect timezone value is specified for a timetz column * 3686: Wrong associativity of multiply/divide * 3702: Filter function not found if created in a user schema * 3708: wrong scoping for cross-schema view references * 3716: alter table my_merge_table drop table t1; crashes mserver5 with Segmentation fault * 3724: Wrong size calculation in BATsubjoin * 3730: SAMPLE function not sampling randomly * 3732: memory leak (of InstrRecord) in opt_mergetable * 3733: "(TRUE OR <Exp>) AND <Exp>" is evaluated incorrectly * 3735: python connection with unix_socket * 3736: crash if mclient disconnects abruptly during a query * 3738: Database inconsistency when using savepoint * 3739: CASE statements do not handle NULLs in the IN () operator properly * 3740: select epoch(now()); types timestamptz(7,0) and bigint(64,0) are not equal * 3742: Division By Zero * 3744: cast to int gives different results for decimal than double * 3747: joins fail in the presence of nulls * 3748: Missing META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver in JDBC package * 3753: Hang on json field parsing * 3754: select from a REMOTE TABLE referring local table crashes mserver5 * 3756: column type conversion sticks to subsequent queries * 3758: "COPY INTO ..." doesn't work, if executing from 2 processes concurrently. * 3759: select data from "sys"."rejects" returns unexpected error and when next select data from "sys"."sessions" causes an assertion failure in mal_interpreter.c:646. * 3760: SQL parser has problem with (position of) a scalar subquery in a SELECT-list * 3761: SQL executor has problem with (position of) a subquery in a SELECT-list. Inconsistent behavior. * 3763: JDBC PreparedStatement for a table with 14 Foreign Keys crashing the Database * 3764: DROPping multiple users causes a crash * 3765: Re-granting a revoked privilege does not work * 3766: VIEW not visible if created under a different schema * 3767: CREATE TEMP TABLE using "LIKE" incorrectly handled * 3769: SIGSEGV when combining a cast/column alias with a UNION ALL view * 3770: combined conditions on declared table in User Defined Function definition crashes monetdb * 3771: Owner of the schema loses rights if assumes the monetdb role. * 3772: Any user can grant a role. * 3773: quantile(col, 0) and quantile(col, 1) fail * 3774: mclient is unaware of merge tables and remote tables * 3775: COPY INTO: Backslash preceding field separator kills import * 3778: Crash on remote table schema mismatch * 3779: server crashes on MAX() on SELECT DISTINCT something combo * 3783: Behavioural change in Jul2015 for 'timestamp minus timestamp' * 3784: Assertion failed: (bn->batCapacity >= cnt), function BAT_scanselect, file gdk_select.c, line 1008. * 3785: sum(interval) causes overflow in conversion to bte * 3786: ResultSet.close() never sends Xclose to free resources * 3787: "b and g must be aligned" from complex group/union query * 3791: HEAPextend: failed to extend to 2420077101056

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Install Monetdb
by HENGKI EFFENDI 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

Hi, I try to install Monetdb in Linux RH, when configure there's error message : configure: error: MonetDB/SQL requires bison Please help me, what should i do. Regards Hengki

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