MySQL server version 5.0 have some spatial capabilities. It can create and store geometry objects, as well as fetch them and check their relations using Minimal Bounding Rectangles (MBRs). Untill now it lacks advanced functions like Distance(), ClosestPoint() and other important features that are supposed to appear in the coming relise of MS SQLserver 2008. See article by Jason Follas: SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data

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