[Freegis-list] spatial databases

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 12:57:17PM +0000, Saurabh Data wrote:
> CAn someone justify that MySQL 4.1 and PostGIS/PostgreSQL are the only two 
> open source spatial databases available in the market.
> 
> and there are no other OSS alternatives

well, some people from SAP told me that MaxDB (former SAP DB)
has some support. But I didn't find any real evidence.

I do not recommend MySQL since if you are using the spatial
stuff you loose are feature such as transactions (IIRC).

PostGIS/PostgreSQL is the best choice today and widely used.

	Jan
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