SAP HANA Spatial Type Hierarchy and SQL/MM Standard
A point in SAP HANA Spatial is the most fundamental geometry type, representing a single location in a coordinate space defined by X and Y values. Developers use points to store and work with precise positional data — such as the location of a place on a map — within spatial columns in SAP HANA database tables. Spatial columns, as described in SAP HANA Spatial tutorials, are special column types that allow developers to persist and query geometry objects like points directly in the database.
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