What Spatial Databases are there for mobile devices?

Question

I am looking for a lightweight Spatial database that could be used locally on a mobile device to store spatial objects; point, line, polygon.

What are the different databases that are capable of storing spatial objects that could be used on a mobile device?

Answer 1

The following are spatial database solutions for mobile:

1. SpatiaLite (a geospatial extension of SQLite). For that, there is a SpatiaLite on Android tutorial, and a blog post on compiling SpatiaLite for iOS.

2. Neo4j, a graph database with a geospatial extension. See the blog posts on Neo4j Mobile for Android and Geospatial Indexing.

3. SpatialDBKit, "An Objective-C lightweight spatial RDBMS (based on SQLite/SpatiaLite)".

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