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Introduction to ArcGIS Data Store

ArcGIS Data Store is an application that configures and manages data storage for the hosting server used with ArcGIS Enterprise deployments on Linux and Microsoft Windows.

ArcGIS Data Store in an ArcGIS Enterprise deployment

ArcGIS Data Store includes an installation and configuration experience that creates the following types of data stores:

For best performance, run each of these data stores on a different machine; otherwise, they will contend for memory resources and disk space.

After you install ArcGIS Data Store on a machine, use the Data Store configuration wizard or configuredatastore utility to create a data store on that machine.

Note:

The following table lists which type of service uses each type of data store. For more information about which functionality requires each type of data store, see Apps and functionality that require ArcGIS Data Store.

Layer/service typeType of data store usedWhat's in the data store

Hosted 3D tiles layers

Object store

3D caches

Hosted feature layers (feature services)

Relational data store, object store

Relational data store—Vector geometries and attributes plus attachments (if used)

Object store—Cached results from queries made against specified sublayers

Hosted spatiotemporal feature layers (feature services)

Spatiotemporal big data store

Spatiotemporal documents

Hosted scene layers (scene services)

Object store

Scene caches

Knowledge graphs (knowledge graph services)

Graph store

Knowledge graphs

Video services

Object store

Video BLOB and associated video service metadata files