Spatial Databases: an overview

Samson, Grace, Lu, Joan, Usman, Mistura M. and Xu, Qiang (2017) Spatial Databases: an overview. In: Ontologies and Big Data Considerations for Effective Intelligence. IGI Global Information Science Reference, pp. 111-149. ISBN 9781522520580

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Abstract

Spatial databases maintain space information which is appropriate for applications where there is need to monitor the position of an object or event over space. Spatial databases describe the fundamental representation of the object of a dataset that comes from spatial or geographic entities. A spatial database supports aspects of space and offers spatial data types in its data model and query language.
The spatial or geographic referencing attributes of the objects in a spatial database permits them to be positioned within a two (2) dimensional or three (3) dimensional space. This chapter looks into the fundamentals of spatial databases and describes their basic component, operations and architecture. The study focuses on the data models, query Language, query processing, indexes and query optimization of a spatial databases that approves spatial databases as a necessary tool for data storage and retrieval for multidimensional data of high dimensional spaces.

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Schools:	School of Computing and Engineering
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Depositing User:	Grace Samson
Date Deposited:	08 Mar 2017 13:19
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2018 08:30
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/31271

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