Roman,

> > Related to our thread
> > http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/1548823.htm
>
> That application was not in Java, but in C++.
>
> > There is gis for mysql,postgres and who knows maybe someone will work
> > for firebird too ;)
>
> It does not solve the issue. Relational database simply peforms not so
> good when it is used the way GIS/CAD systems use data. Nobody tries to
> do OLAP with OODBMS, but RDBMS is not so well suited for CAD/GIS
> applications.

I for one am not argueing that existing (R)DBMSes could/should
perform better. But that perse, has nothing to do with the relational
model as the foundation for the implementation.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies