Comparing Oracle Spatial and Postgres PostGIS
Spatial data is the data or information that identifies the geometry information of an object or location in space thus alternatively referred as geospatial data. More commonly it is description of objects in space. A spatial database is a database with additional capabilities for handling spatial data. This document talks about Oracle Spatial, which is a set of features provided by Oracle to access and manipulate spatial data. The main contribution of the work is that, it compares experimentally, the performance of Oracle Spatial from Oracle and Postgres PostGIS an open source database software used to handle spatial data. Performance is measured and conclusions are drawn upon. A comparison between traditional DBMS and spatial database is also done and reasons are provided as to why a traditional DBMS is inefficient to store spatial data.