[SLUG] A question of databases

From: wchast@utilpart.com
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 22:35:40 EST


This is really new territory for me (I am a radio guy) I am going to
do some AVL work, I need to capture data into a database, that data
will be read into mapping machines in order to track the vehicles.

I see that I have available two database products on my RedHat machines,
MySQL and PostGRES.

What of these or what other db should I use for this sort of activty.
At present there will be the following data fields in the db.
ID, Lat, Lon, gps_time, time_received, status, additional data

gps_time is the time that the record was generated in the vehicle
received_time is the time it is entered into the database
status is a code that would change if some event (panic button,
inertia switch, open door, etc) is activated, and additional data is
other data the remote end can send to the database.

Chuck Hast
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