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Install monetdb with Homebrew, apk, Nix

Column-store database. Version 11.55.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#monetdb.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install monetdb

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add monetdb

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · monetdb · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#monetdb

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/mo/monetdb/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Column-store database

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.

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 bottle metadata was recorded.

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

CommandKindExposureNote
mclientexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
mclient-11.55.5executableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
monetdbexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
monetdb-11.55.5executableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
monetdbdexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
monetdbd-11.55.5executableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
mserver5executableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
mserver5-11.55.5executableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
msqldumpexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.
msqldump-11.55.5executableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.

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 generated2026-08-03
manager version11.55.5
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:monetdb
Version11.55.5
Package managerHomebrew
Homepagehttps://www.monetdb.org/
Bottlenot recorded
Servicenone declared

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
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mo/monetdb/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
apk95%

monetdb 11.33.11-r4

Column-oriented database management system

https://www.monetdb.org/Home

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
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: monetdb from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

monetdb-dev 11.33.11-r4

Column-oriented database management system (development files)

https://www.monetdb.org/Home

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
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: monetdb-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

monetdb-doc 11.33.11-r4

Column-oriented database management system (documentation)

https://www.monetdb.org/Home

sudo apk add monetdb-doc
  • License: MPL-1.1
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: monetdb
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Monetdb
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: monetdb-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

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.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • pkg.so package database
  • pkgdb category and tag curation