
BENCHMARKS
Be so busy improving yourself,
that you have no time to criticize others.
Chetan Bhagat
We continuously improve MonetDB to offer the best performances in the market. For this, and to avoid performance regressions between successive releases, we use public benchmarks, customer workloads, and targeted experiments.
The case for column stores in data analytics
TPC-H SF1 and SF10 benchmarks
Column stores have been invented as the answer to the poor performance of row stores when faced with an analytics workload. The predominant reference case is the TPC-H benhmark.




