The German C't Magazine dated 20/05 called for a competition amongst database teams to implement a web-store application using their favored (open-source) system. See the English for a translation.

The MonetDB development team took up the challenge and studied the behavior of the system in areas not addressed before, i.e. a web-based transactional system. The evaluation by the editors of C't Magazine is presented in magazine dated 13/06. MonetDB came out on the first place in the JDBC-based solutions running ca 1800 transactions a minute. Only bypassed with a single-application implementation and the solution provided by the MySQL performance team using their fast PHP connection bridge.

The complete MonetDB/SQL-based solution for the c't database contest is available from here. Beware, this solution is build on the deprecated MonetDB Version 4 and SQL compiler 2.10.