PostGIS Description
PostGIS serves as an extension for the PostgreSQL object-relational database, enhancing its capabilities with spatial features that enable the execution of geographic queries in SQL. Beyond just fundamental location functionalities, it provides a variety of advanced tools and features that are less common in other spatial databases like Oracle Locator/Spatial and SQL Server. Additionally, with PostgreSQL 14, PostGIS can take advantage of the improved GiST building support API, which significantly boosts performance. When compiled with the latest GEOS 3.10.1, users can benefit from enhancements in the ST_MakeValid function along with various speed optimizations, making it a powerful choice for handling spatial data effectively. This ensures that developers and analysts can work with geospatial data in a more efficient and streamlined manner.
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Google Cloud SQL
Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service that supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. It includes rich extensions, configuration flags, and developer ecosystems. Cloud SQL offers $300 in credits for new customers. You won't pay until you upgrade. Reduce maintenance costs by using fully managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases. The SRE team provides 24/7 support for reliable and secure services. Data encryption in transit and at rest ensures the highest level of security. Private connectivity with Virtual Private Cloud, user-controlled network access, and firewall protection add an additional layer of safety.
Compliant with SSAE 16, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and HIPAA, you can trust your data to be protected. Scale your database instances with a single API request, whether you are just testing or need a highly available database in production. Standard connection drivers and integrated migration tools let you create and connect to a database in a matter of minutes.
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DbVisualizer
DbVisualizer is one of the world’s most popular database clients.
Developers, analysts, and DBAs use it to advance their SQL experience with modern tools to visualize and manage their databases, schemas, objects, and table data and to auto-generate, write and optimize queries.
It has extended support for 30+ of the major databases and has basic-level support for all databases that can be accessed with a JDBC driver. DbVisualizer runs on all major OSes.
Free and Pro versions are available.
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Kinetica
A cloud database that can scale to handle large streaming data sets. Kinetica harnesses modern vectorized processors to perform orders of magnitude faster for real-time spatial or temporal workloads. In real-time, track and gain intelligence from billions upon billions of moving objects. Vectorization unlocks new levels in performance for analytics on spatial or time series data at large scale. You can query and ingest simultaneously to take action on real-time events. Kinetica's lockless architecture allows for distributed ingestion, which means data is always available to be accessed as soon as it arrives. Vectorized processing allows you to do more with fewer resources. More power means simpler data structures which can be stored more efficiently, which in turn allows you to spend less time engineering your data. Vectorized processing allows for incredibly fast analytics and detailed visualizations of moving objects at large scale.
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Simple GIS Client
GIS software for Windows desktops, laptops, and tablets at a low price. You can create, analyze, and publish spatial information. Import location data from Excel spreadsheets or csv files using coordinate data or by street address with unlimited geocoding support. Many vector editing features are available, as well as data wizards that allow you to access data from the USGS, US Census Bureau and OpenStreetMap. Easily create heat maps, perform spatial and buffer analysis and create professional maps. GPS tracking, geocoding and routing are all supported. You can easily map your addresses using Excel spreadsheets and csv files. VB editor integrated with hundreds of properties and methods makes it easy to customize. Perfect GIS software package for small business, freelance or individuals needing GIS on a budget.
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