macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install monetdblocal Homebrew formula metadata
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Install monetdb with Homebrew, apk, Nix
Column-store database. Version 11.55.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-04-09.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add monetdbAlpine Linux edge package indexes · monetdb · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#monetdbnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/mo/monetdb/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Column-store database
Project links
Commands and aliases
- mclient
- mclient-11.55.5
- monetdb
- monetdb-11.55.5
- monetdbd
- monetdbd-11.55.5
- mserver5
- mserver5-11.55.5
- msqldump
- msqldump-11.55.5
history
Project history and usage
MonetDB is a long-running open-source column-store relational database rooted in database-architecture research at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in the Netherlands. The MonetDB history page says the team has been pioneering column-store technology since 1993, building on earlier CWI database-kernel work and a Binary Association Table storage model aimed at analytical and scientific data problems.
Project history
Its early industrial path ran through Data Distilleries, a CWI spin-off that used early MonetDB implementations in an analytical customer-relationship suite before SPSS acquired the company in 2003. MonetDB version 4 moved into the open-source domain in 2004, with major additions including SQL:2003 support and APIs for PHP, JDBC, Python, Perl, ODBC, and Ruby; an XQuery front end followed in 2005. Later phases froze the older MonetDB 4 kernel, pushed the columnar approach deeper into MonetDB 5 and SQL layers, and added embedded use from R, Python, Java, and C as an SQLite-like analytical engine.
Adoption history
CWI describes MonetDB as a DBMS for high-performance complex queries over large datasets, often with hundreds of columns and millions of rows, and names domains such as CRM, telecommunications, healthcare, astronomy, remote sensing, biology, and seismology. A 2012 IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin paper summary describes MonetDB as an open-source column-store for analytics over large collections of data, used in health care, telecommunications, scientific databases, and data-management research, with more than 10,000 monthly downloads at that time.
How it is used
As a package-manager entry, MonetDB is not a generic embedded library: Homebrew installs server and client tools such as mserver5, monetdbd, monetdb, mclient, and msqldump. It fills the niche of an analytical SQL column store for local experimentation, research workloads, and systems where a mature open-source columnar RDBMS is preferable to a cloud warehouse or row-store database.
Sources
- https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/monetdb
- https://stratos.seas.harvard.edu/publications/monetdb-two-decades-research-column-oriented-database-architectures
- https://www.cwi.nl/en/results/software/monetdb-high-performance-query-processing-against-very-large-databases/
- https://www.monetdb.org/about-us/monetdb-history/
security posture
Risk level: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risk classifier
blue risk · medium confidence · tool
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signals
- text:database,sql,client,server
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 5 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
.monetdb$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/monetdb~/.config/monetdb~/.monetdb<dbfarm>/.merovingian_properties
Credential files
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
- Unix
.monetdb$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/monetdb~/.config/monetdb~/.monetdb<dbfarm>/.merovingian_properties
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
mclient | cli | global executable | |
mclient-11.55.5 | cli | global executable | |
monetdb | cli | global executable | |
monetdb-11.55.5 | cli | global executable | |
monetdbd | cli | global executable | |
monetdbd-11.55.5 | cli | global executable | |
mserver5 | cli | global executable | |
mserver5-11.55.5 | cli | global executable | |
msqldump | cli | global executable | |
msqldump-11.55.5 | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version11.55.5
manager updated2026-04-09
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.monetdb.org/none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:monetdb |
|---|---|
| Version | 11.55.5 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/monetdb |
| Homepage | https://www.monetdb.org/ |
| Repository | https://dev.monetdb.org/hg/MonetDB |
| Upstream docs | https://www.monetdb.org/documentation |
| License | MPL-2.0 |
| Source archive | https://www.monetdb.org/downloads/sources/Dec2025-SP2/MonetDB-11.55.5.tar.xz |
| Last updated | 2026-04-09T11:25:51Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | lz4, openssl@3, pcre2, readline, xz |
| Build dependencies | bison, cmake, pkgconf |
| Uses from macOS | bzip2 |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | monetdb |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
monetdb
nix profile install nixpkgs#monetdb- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Monetdb
apk95%
monetdb 11.33.11-r4
Column-oriented database management system
sudo apk add monetdb- License: MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: monetdb
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Monetdb
apk95%
monetdb-dev 11.33.11-r4
Column-oriented database management system (development files)
sudo apk add monetdb-dev- License: MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: monetdb
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Monetdb
apk95%
monetdb-doc 11.33.11-r4
Column-oriented database management system (documentation)
sudo apk add monetdb-doc- License: MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: monetdb
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Monetdb
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment