How does SIS use Databases?

SIS can use databases in a variety of ways:

Only 32-bit SIS and GeognoSIS support the use of Oracle with the following database dataset types:

64-bit SIS and GeognoSIS do not support these database dataset types in Oracle.

Spatial Databases

A Spatial Database is a database that is optimized to store and query data related to objects in space, including Point, LineString and Polygon items.

Advances in relational database management technology now gives users the option of storing their GIS data in a spatial database rather than using file based storage. SIS is compatible with the following industry-standard spatial databases:

Non Spatial Databases

SIS can display non spatial data from various sources. Check with your database administrator to ascertain which database your data is stored in and whether the appropriate database connectivity software has been loaded onto your client. Data can be read from the following sources:

Data is read from the source in its entirety which means the bigger the source data the longer it takes to read data into SIS.

Database datatype support

The following table lists the datatypes that are created in each database when data is exported from SIS or when a new column is added to a database overlay.

The listed data types are the ones that should be used when creating tables manually in the database.


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