Re: k-neighbourhood search in databases

Hans,

thanks a lot. I've heard about Oracle Spatial, but I don't know
if it's knn is  just syntactic sugar for workarounds.

Oleg

On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, PostgreSQL - Hans-J?rgen Sch?nig wrote:

> hello ...
>
> i have put some research into that some time ago and as far as i have seen there is a 99% chance that no other
databasecan do it the way we do it. it seems nobody comes even close to it (especially not in the flexibility-arena).
 
>
> oracle: disgusting workaround ...
> http://www.orafaq.com/usenet/comp.databases.oracle.misc/2005/11/03/0083.htm
>
> db2: disgusting workaround (no server side code it seems)
>
> sybase: disgusting workaround (no serverside code it seems)
>
> microsoft: there seems to be something coming out (or just out) but i have not seen anything working yet.
>
>     regards,
>
>         hans
>
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm interesting if other databases provides built-in effective knn search ? Google didn't help me.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>         Oleg
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