[mapguide-users] Database Comparisons/Reviews/Recommendations

[Zac Spitzer]

I love oracle, but keep in mind, there's a lot of spatial
functionality which you can't legally use unless you
buy the enterprise version.... $$$$$.. epic fail

Postgis has all the advanced spatial stuff for free, plus
they have been working on improving stuff...

sdo_union has been drastically improved in postgis,
it out performs oracle by a factor close to oracle's license
cost in $ for large operations

z




On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Jason Birch <jason at jasonbirch.com> wrote:
> This is somewhat irrelevant, but for history's sake:
> Both of these providers were initially written by the same person and funded
> jointly by Refractions Research and the City of Nanaimo. The original
> developer hit a wall with the Generic RDBMS framework (used for the MySQL,
> SQL Server Spatial and ODBC providers) as he was nearing the home stretch
> and started over.  Unfortunately, this led to a resource crunch and this
> second attempt never reached the desired level of stability despite some
> valiant efforts by subsequent maintainers.
> Autodesk recently dusted off the code from first abandoned attempt, added
> the features that were required for it to be usable, and made it stable.
>  I'm really glad that they chose to take this on, and am happy to see that
> FDO (and MapGuide) now have a decent answer for PostGIS users.
> Jason
>
> On 30 August 2010 18:55, Zac Spitzer wrote:
>>
>> Autodesk recently developed a new PostGIS FDO provider which
>> is much better than the previous community developed FDO
>> provider was somewhat buggy.
>>
>
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