Spatial or spatio-temporal data is graphic and image data that contains both time and space information. Spatial or spatio-temporal data contains multidimensional information about objects, such as the location, shape, change, and size distribution.

Introduction

Ganos for ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL is a spatio-temporal engine. Ganos provides various data types, functions, and stored procedures for ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL to store, index, query, analyze, and compute spatial or spatio-temporal data in an efficient manner.

This topic describes how to use Ganos to manage and analyze spatio-temporal data.

Pricing

Ganos is included in ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL and free of charge.
Note For more information about the extensions that are supported by ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL, see Supported extensions.