Overview of Spatial Support on the Cloud Databases

Liz Sanderson
Liz Sanderson
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Introduction

Overview of Spatial Support on the Cloud databases

 

Relational Databases

Managed Databases

Industry-standard databases are offered as a managed service on AWS, Azure and Google Clouds.
 

Database Cloud Platform Support Spatial Support FME Support

Maria DB (10.1.2+)
 

  • AWS
  • Azure

Spatial Types: Geometry and Geography
Supported Types: All main types.
Spatial Functions: All major functions.

 

Read, write and query.

MySQL ( 8.0+)
 

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google

Spatial Types: Geometry and Geography
Supported Types: All main types.
Spatial Functions: All major functions.

Read, write and query.

Oracle
  • AWS

Oracle Spatial and Oracle Locator are supported.

Spatial Types: Geometry and Geography
Supported Types: All main types.
Spatial Functions: All major functions.

Read, write and query.

PostgreSQL

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google

All clouds support the PostGIS extension.

Spatial Types: Geometry and Geography
Supported Types: All main types.
Spatial Functions: All major functions.

Read, write and query.

SQL Server

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google

Spatial Types: Geometry and Geography
Supported Types: All main types.
Spatial Functions: All major functions.


Read, write and query.

 

Cloud-Native Databases

Cloud-native databases are created by the cloud provider and designed from the ground up to take advantage of the cloud architecture. They are often based on existing database engines but are optimized for the cloud with a focus on performance and availability.

 

Database Spatial Support FME Support

AWS Aurora RDS

Aurora supports both the MySQL and PostgreSQL database engines. Both of these engines have spatial data types enabled (PostGIS and MySQL).

Spatial Types: Geometry and Geography
Supported Types: All main types (e.g. Points, Lines, Polygons)
Spatial Functions: All PostGIS and MySQL functions.

 

Read, write and query.

Azure SQL Database

 

This is based on SQL Server with the same spatial support.

Spatial Types: Geometry and Geography
Supported Types: All main types (e.g. Points, Lines, Polygons)
Spatial Functions: All SQL Server functions.

Read, write and query.

Google Cloud Spanner

Cloud Spanner does not natively support geospatial queries. Google’s S2 library can be leveraged which uses spherical geometry and is used by Google itself on Google Maps.

Read, write and query.

 

Data Warehouses

Data warehouses are interactive data analysis tools for large datasets. They enable you to store large volumes of data cheaply and provide an interface where you can run fast complex queries across the data.

 

Database Spatial Support FME Support

AWS Athena

Type of Support: Native
Spatial Types: Geometry
Supported Types: Points, Lines, Polygons, Multipoint, Multilines, Multipolygons and Geometry Collections
Spatial Functions: Over 30 functions

 

Query S3 datasets

AWS Redshift

Type of Support: Native
Spatial Types: Geometry and 2D support only.
Supported Types: Points, Lines, Polygons, Multilines and Multipolygons
Spatial Functions: Over 40 functions

Read, write and query.

Google Big Query

Type of Support: Native
Spatial Types: Geography
Supported Types: Points, Lines, Polygons.
Spatial Functions: Over 30 functions.

Read, write and query.

Snowflake

Type of Support: Native
Spatial Types: Geography
Supported Types: Point, MultiPoint, LineString, MultiLineString, Polygon, MultiPolygon, GeometryCollection, Feature, FeatureCollection
Spatial Functions: Over 30 functions.


Read, write and query.

 

NoSQL Databases

NoSQL databases allow huge amounts of unstructured data to be stored and queried.

 

Database Spatial Support FME Support

AWS Dynamo DB

No support. There used to be support for geohashes via an official library, this project has now been archived.

 

Read and write.

Azure Cosmos DB

Documentation

 

Type of Support: Native
Spatial Types: Geography and Geometry
Supported Types: Points, Linestrings, Polygons, Multipolygons. Spatial Functions: Within, Distance, Intersects.

Read, write and query.

Google Cloud Firestore

Type of Support: No native support, but there is support for geohashing via a 3rd party library.
Spatial Types: Geography
Supported Types: Points
Spatial Functions: Within, Distance, Bearing

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