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9explained innovations. Below you find the timeline and access to those original documents.</p><ul><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdb-via-apache-superset/>MonetDB via Apache Superset: An Open Source Toolkit for Business Intelligence</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2026/09/18</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdb-mcp-server/>Natural language interface to SQL using LLMs</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2026/04/02</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/imdb-datasets-critique/>A Critique of the IMDb Datasets</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2025/11/21</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/imdb-sql-intro/>A Layman's Dive Into Database Management Systems</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2025/09/04</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdb-foundation/>MonetDB Foundation</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2024/02/29</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/github-mercurial-mirror/>Github - Mercurial Mirror</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2023/08/14</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/update-on-containers/>Rethinking containers</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2022/09/29</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdb-in-containers/>Running MonetDB in containers</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2022/09/08</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/learning-from-benchmarking/>Learning from Benchmarking</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2022/07/28</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/group-commit/>Group commit</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2022/05/04</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/tools-for-managing-monetdb/>Tools for managing MonetDB</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2022/03/22</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/query-journey-in-monetdb/>A query’s journey through MonetDB</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2022/02/17</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline>

9<a href=/blogs/jdbc-driver-v32-release/>JDBC driver v3.2 release</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2022/02/03</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/taxi-journey-continues/>The taxi journey continues</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2021/06/15</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdbe-windows/>MonetDB/e an embedded analytical SQL engine for Windows</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2020/11/11</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdbe-python/>The MonetDB/e Python interface for data analytics</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2020/10/27</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdbe/>MonetDB/e, a mature embedded SQL DBMS</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2020/10/27</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/faster-robuster-features/>Faster, robuster and feature richer: MonetDB in 2020 and beyond</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2020/10/19</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/pystethoscope/>Doctor, what’s happening with my query in the MonetDB kernel?</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2020/06/15</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/cmake/>From automake to CMake: a facelift for our build infrastructure</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2020/06/09</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/sql-1999-grouping/>SQL:1999 grouping combinations now supported in MonetDB</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2020/02/15</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/optimistic-concurrency/>Optimistic Concurrency Control in MonetDB</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2020/01/03</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/update-mergetables/>Updatable Merge Tables</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2019/08/01</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/limit-memory-with-cgroups/>Limit memory usage of MonetDB on Linux with CGROUPS</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2019/05/09</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/merge-statements/>SQL:2003 merge statements now supported in MonetDB</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2019/03/08</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/window-functions/>Extended SQL:2011 Window Functions in MonetDB</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2019/02/26</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/remote-table-authorization/>Remote Tables and Authorization</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2018/08/10</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/iot-streaming/>IoT and streaming in MonetDB</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2018/07/26</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/jit-c-udfs/>JIT C/C++ UDFs in MonetDB</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2018/05/23</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdblite-for-java/>MonetDBLite for Java</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2018/02/07</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/debugging-python-udfs/>Interactive Debugging for Python UDFs</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2017/11/01</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdb-on-github/>MonetDB mirror on GitHub</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2017/08/21</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/lsst-queries/>LSST Queries in MonetDB</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2017/06/27</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdblite-for-python/>MonetDBLite for Python</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2017/04/05</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdb-headless/>MonetDB goes headless</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2016/12/20</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdb-autumn-2016/>MonetDB autumn 2016 feature release outlook</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2016/07/31</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/python-loader/>MonetDB/Python Loader Functions</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2016/07/27</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/datafungi/>DataFungi, from Rotting Data to Purified Information</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2016/05/20</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/continuous-integration-jenkins/>Continuous Integration of MonetDB and SKA using Jenkins</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2016/03/24</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/radio-astronomy/>Time-domain radio astronomy with MonetDB</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2016/03/15</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/voter-classification/>Voter Classification using MonetDB/Python</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2016/02/19</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdb-ruby/>MonetDB's Ruby API</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2016/01/16</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdb-for-r/>MonetDBLite for R</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2015/11/11</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/embedded-python-for-monetdb/>Embedded Python/NumPy in MonetDB</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2015/09/21</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/astronomy-pipeline-monetdb/>Large-scale astronomical high-cadence high-density pipeline with MonetDB</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2015/09/21</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/restful-proxy/>Introducing the MonetDB RESTful proxy</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2015/09/07</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdb-embraces-nodejs/>MonetDB Embraces Node.js</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2015/08/01</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/astronomy-datavault/>Astronomical data analysis with MonetDB Data Vaults</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2015/05/29</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/docker-for-monetdb/>Docker container for MonetDB with R</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2015/04/09</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/genome-sequence/>Genome sequence alignment data processing</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2015/02/17</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/data-rotting/>"Data Rotting" concept receives CIDR 2015 Wildest Idea award</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2015/01/08</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/holger-pirk/>PhD awarded to Holger Pirk for his work on Managing Relational Data in Asymmetric Memories</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2015/01/05</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdb-r-sandbox/>MonetDB and R sandbox for VirtualBox</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2014/12/09</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/embedded-r-monetdb/>Embedded R in MonetDB</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2014/10/31</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/monetdb-releases/>MonetDB releases and development</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2014/09/16</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a href=/blogs/citus-monetdb/>Citus Data cstore_fdw (PostgreSQL Column Store) vs. MonetDB TPC-H Shootout</a></h5><p class=d-inline>- 2014/04/07</p></li><li class=my-3><h5 class=d-inline><a 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