Spatial Database Engine

• The Spatial Database Engine is "a high performance, object oriented database that employs a true client/server architecture, combined with a set of software services to perform fast, efficient spatial operations and management of large, shared, geographic data".

• It consists of "a multithreaded spatial server engine and client API functions. These components provide developers with the ability to perform seamless integration and management of spatial and tabular data in a cooperative and shared database environment".