Actian Corporation recently announced the addition of geospatial support to the Ingres relational database. Ingres 10S supports spatial applications, such as Esri’s ArcGIS for Desktop and FME, and enables businesses to collect, migrate, analyse and share spatial and relational data together.
“We are collecting more spatial data on a more frequent basis such as addresses, geocodes and co-ordinates,” says Tyler Mitchell, geospatial consultant and engineering director at Actian. “Companies can no longer afford to have the spatial component of their data separate from the rest of their enterprise data. Ingres 10S lets you store and manipulate data alongside traditional data, and our GIS functions and data types are included out-of-the-box.”
Ingres 10S includes read/write support to leading GIS software packages such as Esri’s ArcGIS for Desktop. MapServer and GeoServer support make it easy to share data and enable web mapping, and Ingres 10S offers unlimited data import flexibility using the leading spatial ETL tool, Safe Software’s Feature Manipulation Engine (FME).
“At Safe Software, our focus is on ensuring that spatial data can be used and shared – regardless of the tool it originates from, or the system it needs to be used in,” says Dale Lutz, vice president of development and co-founder, Safe Software. “We are pleased to extend FME’s spatial data transformation capabilities to Ingres database users to help them overcome the challenges they may face with using and sharing spatial data.”
Ingres 10S is an all-in-one spatial and relational database and does not require additional add-ons to access its geospatial functionality. Ingres 10S is supported by other programming libraries including GDAL/OGR and GeoTools, allowing additional applications to import, export and manipulate vector data. Ingres 10S leverages the GEOS geometry and PROJ cartographic projection libraries for manipulating and transforming spatial data between dozens of geographic and planar co-ordinate systems.
Ingres 10S offers a complete spatial and relational database solution that includes worldwide, mission-critical 24×7 support.
Ingres 10S is now available for download at http://www.actian.com/downloads/ingres.
To learn more, please visit the Actian website at http://www.actian.com/ingres.
