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Evan Carroll
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Neither. The right answer is to use the GIS Spatial Type for a point. All of those database have their own implementation.

PostgreSQL's PostGIS is easily the most full featured GIS implementation,

CREATE TABLE foo(
  gid  int GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY,
  geog geography(POINT)
);

I would highly suggest going PostgreSQL, and checking out the book PostGIS in Action i fyou're new to this. See also,

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