The MonetDB server code has been split into a separately useable single library for integration with a host language. The functionality offered encompasses the complete server functionality, but using a directly loadable library libmonetdbe.so or 'pip install monetdbe'

To test and illustrate the functionality, and give a bootstrap for users to use it in their daily life, we collected a handful of small examples to try it out.

Feel free to propose other tiny examples that help users to explore the system. As a more extensive QA activity is ongoing, it may lead to smaller changes in the interfaces. Please report any issue with the code on stack-overflow.

For details on installing monetdbe see https://monetdbe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html. A quick guide to compile and install from source to create a library for your C application:

git clone https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDB MonetDB
cd MonetDB
mkdir build && cd build                                                                                                                                                                     
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
cmake --build .                                                                                                                                                                             

This results in the libmonetdbe.so library to be created and stored .../lib64/libmonetdbe.so or .../build/tools/monetdbe/libmonetdbe.so. The necessary include file monetdbe.h is located in the same place.

Continue with the compilation of the examples using

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<monetdb-installation-prefix>/share/monetdb/cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<monetdb-installation-prefix> ..                                                         
cmake --build .

If the MonetDB cmake files aren't found you could apply the monetdbe-examples.diff using patch and use:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$prefix/lib64/pkgconfig/ cmake .. #were $prefix is your monetdb install path