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
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-cluster.html), and
ARCHIVE tables. See also the annotations about spatial indexes under
[HELP SPATIAL].

URL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/creating-spatial-columns.html

