Roman Rokytskyy wrote:

>
>>OO is no basis for storage, is it?

cut

>>OODBMS: yes, please, drop them :-)

> OODBMS does not tell how data are stored, but how they are accessed
> and manipulated. And I know at least one example of very successfull
> OODBMS use-case in the company where I worked before with a huge
> amount of geographical data (Europe and US, including the building
> polygons). Would RDBMS work there? Maybe... but not so good as OODBMS.
>

Related to our thread
http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/1548823.htm

There is gis for mysql,postgres and who knows maybe someone will work
for firebird too ;)

http://www.google.com/search?q=postgis
http://www.google.com/search?q=mysql+gis