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1.4 Download and Installation
The MonetDB system is provided as open-source software and can be downloaded from http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Download. The below information explains the different options to choose from.
MonetDB/XQuery can be installed in different ways, depending on:
- whether you want the stable release, or the latest development version.
- whether you want to compile yourself or you want a pre-compiled binary.
- what operating system you use.
MonetDB/XQuery consists of the software modules:
- MonetDB: the database kernel.
- MonetDB4: the query algebra interpreter and scheduler (still version 4).
- clients: the mclient utility, and MAPI libraries.
- XQuery: the Pathfinder compiler and its runtime support (including PF/Tijah)
Each module is identified by a major and minor version number, e.g. 4.20.
A Stable Release contains all relevant software modules that are tested together. Typically, the major numbers of the various modules are different, but the minor numbers match.
Stable Releases have even minor numbers, the Current development version numbers are odd.
Bug-fixes may get consolidated and tested into a bug-fix release, which adds another (even) modifier: e.g. 4.20.2.