Storing 3D points into a database

Question

I am actualy working on a database in which I have to store meteorological 3D points. With my partner we have diffrent point of view in the way of storing it. He would prefer to create a table of Points with one point for each line, and for me it was more appropriate to store the points for a given date/peripheral in a BLOB.

What do you think ?

Thanks

PS : we are also arguing about the DB we should use (SQLite, MySQL,...) if you have ideas, you are welcome !

Answer 1

All depends on whether you need to to write queries to get particular points. ie find me all the thingies with Points with an X < 300. If you don't have much relational stuff to do, and you are going down the blob route then you should consider one of the NoSql variants.

It's decision you should make based on your functional needs not a purist approach to relational db design.