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What Can Oracle Locator Do for You?



  • Query nearest neighbor and other spatial relationships between geometries
  • Perform location queries on relational information not stored in Oracle Spatial geometry
  • Support long transactions
  • Store and index vector geometries in the database
  • Enhance application performance

Oracle Locator 11g: Location Features in Oracle Database 11g—Feature Overview (PDF 187KB) January 2009		  

What Can Oracle Spatial Do for You?



  • Everything that Oracle Locator does, and:
  • Perform length and area calculations on geometries
  • Generate new geometries such as buffers and unions
  • Perform coordinate systems transformations, for individual geometries or entire layers
  • Store linear measure information



Oracle Database 11g Spatial Option—Data Sheet (PDF 208KB) August 2010