Databases form the backbone of an industrial mapping solution.

TrueNorth is working on support for the following databases. Support will be included in the professional and industrial versions.

Format	Description	Consume	Produce	Note
SQLite/Spatial	SQLite/SpatiaLite	Yes	No	SQLite is a “light weight” single file based RDBMS engine
MySQL	MySQL	Yes		MySQL is a popular free enterprise database
Oracle/Spatial	Oracle Spatial	Yes	No	Oracle Spatial aids users in managing geographic and location-data in a native type within an Oracle database
ODBC	Open Database Connectivity	Yes	No	ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) is a standard C programming language interface for accessing database management systems (DBMS).
PostgreSQL	PostgreSQL	Yes		Sophisticated open-source Object-Relational DBMS
MSSQL/Spatial	Microsoft SQL Server with Spatial extensions	Yes		Used for web data interchange
CouchDB	CouchDB / GeoCouch	Yes		Apache CouchDB is an open source database part of the NoSQL group of data stores and is designed for local replication and to scale horizontally across a wide range of devices.