Query Processing at Light Speed MonetDB is a open-source database system for high-performance applications in data mining, <acronym title="On-Line Analytical Processing">OLAP</acronym>, <acronym title="Geographic Information System">GIS</acronym>, <acronym title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</acronym> Query, text and multimedia retrieval. MonetDB often achieves a <a href="http://www.monetdb.nl/projects/monetdb//SQL/Benchmark/TPCH/"> 10-fold raw speed improvement for SQL </a> and <a href="http://www.monetdb.nl/projects/monetdb//XQuery/Benchmark/">XQuery</a> over competitor RDBMSs. Use the product strands as your roadmap for exploration. in Public bookmarkswith basecolumndataopenqueryserversourcesqlxml