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 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:
- Access to the data in each data store listed above is provided exclusively through web layers.
- Use only the ArcGIS Data Store utilities, Data Store configuration wizard, or REST commands to configure and manage the data stores deployed with ArcGIS Data Store.
- Deployments upgraded to 11.5 may also include a tile cache data store. ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 is the last release that will support the tile cache data store. See the tile cache data store deprecation notice for more information. If you have hosted scene layer caches stored in the tile cache data store, you must configure an object store and migrate hosted scene layer caches at this release.
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 type | Type of data store used | What'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, tile cache data store* | Scene caches |
Knowledge graphs (knowledge graph services) | Graph store | Knowledge graphs |
Video services | Object store | Video BLOB and associated video service metadata files |
* Existing hosted scene layer caches remain in the tile cache data store until you migrate them to the object store. All new hosted scene layer caches are stored in the object store.