Thursday, January 3. 2008

Spatial Database for Android

Here's another piece of evidence spatial is mainstream and tied to mobile (as if we needed one):

McObject is offering the Android-ready Perst, a very compact embedded database that includes "R-tree indexes for spatially-oriented applications such as GIS and navigation." Further: "The Perst API is flexible, easy-to-use and very fast compared to alternative commercial Java OODBMSs. "

The database and a demo app, along with the same thing implemented in SQLite (which comes with Android) are avaialble with full source code for download. To be clear, there's an open source license to try, develop and distribute non-commercial apps (free) and a commercial license for commercial apps ($$$).

I can't say I've ever heard of the company or database, the company's other offering, eXtremeDB, is embedded in many mobile and communications devices.

- Press release

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, Open Source, LBS, Databases at 07:31 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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