Certain functionality in ArcGIS depends on the use of ArcGIS Data Store with Portal for ArcGIS. Some Esri apps use this functionality and, therefore, require you use ArcGIS Data Store. This topic lists functionality specific to portals that use ArcGIS Data Store, as well as the Esri apps that require it.
Functionality
The following table lists the functionality you get with ArcGIS Data Store and the type of data store you need to configure to get it.
| Functionality | Data store type |
|---|---|
Publish scene layers to your portal from ArcGIS Pro or a scene layer package. | Tile cache data store Scene layers also require a hosted feature layer. You can configure a relational data store for those (the recommended workflow), or register your own managed database with the portal's hosting server. |
Enable the ability to track feature creation and updates and enforce ownership-based access control through the feature layer's item details in the portal website. | Relational data store |
Enable or disable attachments through a feature layer's item details in the portal website. | Relational data store |
Publish an empty hosted feature layer. | Relational data store |
Publish thousands of hosted feature layers. | Relational data store |
Review and match addresses in the portal map viewer for a hosted feature layer published from a comma-separated values (CSV) file. | Relational data store |
Create feature templates in the portal map viewer. | Relational data store |
Calculate values for a field in the portal map viewer. | Relational data store |
Publish a hosted tile layer or hosted WFS layer from a hosted feature layer. | Relational data store |
Archive observation data streamed when using ArcGIS GeoEvent Server. | Spatiotemporal big data store |
Use standard feature analysis tools in the portal map viewer, ArcGIS Pro, or Insights for ArcGIS. (These tools create hosted feature layers as output.) | Relational data store |
Use GeoAnalytics Tools in the portal map viewer or ArcGIS Pro. (GeoAnalytics Tools create hosted feature layers as output, and the data is stored in the spatiotemporal big data store.) | Spatiotemporal big data store and relational data store |
Use raster analysis tools in the portal map viewer or ArcGIS Pro. Raster analysis tools use the tile cache data store to temporarily store data generated during analysis. A subset of raster analysis tools create hosted feature layers, and the data for those layers is stored in the relational data store. | Tile cache data store and relational data store |
Apps
The following Esri apps require that your portal's hosting server uses ArcGIS Data Store:
- Survey123 for ArcGIS—This app relies on publishing an empty hosted feature layer, so you must have a relational data store configured with your portal's hosting server to use this app.
- GeoPlanner for ArcGIS—This app relies on publishing an empty hosted feature layer, so you must have a relational data store configured with your portal's hosting server to use this app.
- Insights for ArcGIS—This app uses the relational data store configured with your portal's hosting server to store information about the data sources you add to Insights and store the output from standard feature analysis.
- Workforce for ArcGIS—This app relies on publishing empty hosted feature layers, so you must have a relational data store configured with your portal's hosting server to use this app.
Considerations when you need more than one type of data store
If you require more than one type of data store, Esri recommends that you configure them on separate machines. Relational and spatiotemporal big data stores each require a large percentage of the machine's memory to process data queries. Depending on how much and the size of the data you store, each data store could consume large amounts of disk space. When you put more than one type of data store on the same machine, they compete for these storage and memory resources, which can negatively affect the performance of your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment.