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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+ <herd>no-herd</herd>
+ <maintainer>
+ <email>grobian@gentoo.org</email>
+ <name>Fabian Groffen</name>
+ </maintainer>
+ <longdescription>
+ MonetDB is a main-memory database developed at CWI the
+ Netherlands. The main-memory focus of the database has resulted
+ in a column based way of dealing with relational tables. Due to
+ this unconventional approach, MonetDB can be a very fast
+ database for complex queries, and as such in use (and perfectly
+ suitable) for intensive data-mining tasks.
+ MonetDB 4 supports its own kernel language, MIL, the
+ conventional SQL query language and the relatively new XML
+ querying language, XQuery.
+ </longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>