There was a nice discussion on [WayBack] What RDBMS do you use when doing location-aware things?More specifically, I am looking into a simple app with use of GPS… – Andrea Raimondi – Google+
TL;DR: use PostGIS on top of PostgresSQL.
- [WayBack] PostGIS — Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL
- repository mirrors:
- [WayBack] PostgreSQL: The world’s most advanced open source database
–jeroen