Design of Memory-Resident GIS Database Systems

  • Lee, J. H. (ETRI) ;
  • Nam, K.W. (ETRI) ;
  • Lee, S.H. (ETRI) ;
  • Park, J.H. (ETRI)
  • Published : 2003.11.03

Abstract

As semiconductor memory becomes cheaper, the memory capacity of computer system is increasing. Therefore computer system has sufficient memory for a plentiful spatial data. With emerging spatial application required high performance, this paper presents a GIS database system in main memory. Memory residence can provide both functionality and performance for a database management system. This paper describes design of DBMS for storing, querying, managing and analyzing for spatial and non-spatial data in main-memory. This memory resident GIS DBMS supports SQL for spatial query, spatial data model, spatial index and interface for GIS tool or applications.

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