README

The MonetDB Database System
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The MonetDB database is developed by the CWI database research group 
(see http://www.monetdb.org/).

Via the MonetDB project we have brought the MonetDB system in open source,
where it is accessible at http://www.monetdb.org/Downloads/

The MonetDB database system is a high-performance database kernel for
query-intensive applications. The MonetDB kernel works together with an
SQL frontend that is in a separate CVS module.

If you got a source distribution, please compile and install MonetDB first,
following the instructions in the file 'HowToStart.rst' (for Unix)
or 'buildtools/doc/windowsbuild.rst' (for Windows).


Copyright Notice
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License, v. 2.0.  If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
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Copyright 1997 - July 2008 CWI, August 2008 - 2016 MonetDB B.V.