The presentation will discuss the loading and indexing of spatial data, but will concentrate on the spatial functions available for further analysis in MySQL. Specific business cases will be used to illustrate these functions, such as the real-time monitoring of boats in offshore windfarm construction. A Java front-end will be used to support the claim that Java plus Mysql equals traditional GIS

ScaleDB storage engine delivers high performance transaction processing capability with row level locking and multi-node concurrency control. It enhances performance through innovative indexing technology and delivers low cost computing with a Shared Disk architecture. When applications demand more computing power, additional servers are added to the cluster to scale the system capacity.