MySQL provides a standard way of creating spatial columns for geometry
types, for example, with CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE. Currently,
spatial columns are supported for MyISAM, InnoDB, NDB, BDB, and ARCHIVE
tables. (Support for storage engines other than MyISAM was added in
MySQL 5.0.16.) See also the annotations about spatial indexes under
[HELP SPATIAL].

URL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/creating-spatial-columns.html

