Wednesday, October 1. 2008

Where is Spatial at MySQL?

I regularly get the MySQL monthly newsletter and I always look to see what's up with support for spatial data. There is never much to be found. This month, there is an announcement about a call for papers for the 2009 MySQL conference. And in the list of suggested topics, I expected to see something about spatial. No such luck. The question is, why? Here is the leading open source database that supports spatial data primitives and not a word about it for their conference. Location technology and spatial data support is no longer sequestered to the back room. It's front and center in BI, LBS, and enterprise computing. It should be one of the key topics at the MySQL conference. I expect many attendees would want to know what's going on. Let's hope that Sun (now owners of MySQL) and O'Reilly (conference organizers) make an effort to include spatial in the future.

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It's not easy to the owners of MySQL because designing the Spatial model is not the strenth of a DB vender. If there is no support from GIS provider, it makes no sense of providing storage model. You cannot even using the data stored in MySQL. Unfortunately,the GIS platform companies don't like to do such kind of effort for commercial consideration. This is the reason you can only find Oracle having Oracle Spatial(purchasing from MapInfo) in RDBMS market.

#1 James on 2008-10-06 00:01 (Reply)

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