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Use Oracle Spatial in Autonomous Database

Spatial features are included in Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, allowing developers and analysts to get started easily with location intelligence analytics and mapping services.

  • About Oracle Spatial
    Autonomous Database includes Oracle Spatial. Oracle Spatial allows developers and analysts to use spatial analysis in every application, from basic spatial search and analysis to advanced geospatial applications and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
  • Limitations on the Use of Oracle Spatial
    Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure includes Oracle Spatial, with the following limitations.

Parent topic: Features for Experienced Database Users

About Oracle Spatial

Autonomous Database includes Oracle Spatial. Oracle Spatial allows developers and analysts to use spatial analysis in every application, from basic spatial search and analysis to advanced geospatial applications and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

With the spatial features in Autonomous Database, organizations can:
  • Manage different types of geospatial data
  • Perform hundreds of spatial analytic operations, and
  • Use interactive map visualization tools
The spatial features of Autonomous Database enable storage, retrieval, update, query, and processing of spatial data. They consist of the following:

  • A schema (MDSYS) that prescribes the storage, syntax, and semantics of supported geometric data types

  • A spatial indexing mechanism

  • Operators, functions, and procedures for performing area-of-interest queries, spatial join queries, and other spatial analysis operations

  • Utility functions and procedures for validating, loading, extracting, and working with spatial data

  • GeoRaster, a feature that lets you store, index, query, analyze, and deliver GeoRaster data, that is, raster image and gridded data and its associated metadata

See Spatial Concepts and Oracle Database 19c Spatial and Graph for more information.

Limitations on the Use of Oracle Spatial

Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure includes Oracle Spatial, with the following limitations.

The following Oracle Spatial components require that you download applications from Oracle Cloud Marketplace:
The following are not available in Autonomous Database:
Spatial Feature More Information
Routing Engine Routing Engine
Geocoder (mid-tier) Geocoding Address Data