Hosted versus Remote data and ArcGIS Enterprise Geodatabases

Question

Hello,

This is the definition of Insights hosted feature layers from https://doc.arcgis.com/en/insights/latest/get-started/feature-layers.htm.

I was hoping that "Insights hosted feature layers" would include ArcGIS Enterprise feature layers that are on MS SQL Server in an Enterprise Geodatabase registered as a data store, but my testing has shown otherwise.  They show as "Remote feature layers".  The vast majority of our data will reside on the MS SQL Enterprise Geodatabase severely restricting Insights functionality.

That is unless, I'm missing something.  Is it possible for data residing on an Enterprise Geodatabase to NOT be remote?

Let me know.

Thank you,

Tyler

Enterprise 11.2

Akshay Harshe · Accepted Answer

@TylerT Thanks for your question.

Feature services backed by Enterprise GDB should come in as a hosted layer when published to the portal's hosted datastore. If the layers are published to the ArcGIS Server (outside of the hosted datastore) or are referenced (created using URL) then they will be treated as remote layers.

If possible, I recommend you connect directly to the MSSQL Enterprise geodatabase using a database connection. This will give you the full functionality and strong performance.  ArcGIS Insights will honor the data permissions set on your data and users in your database except row-based access is limited to MSSQL when connecting with Windows Authentication.

Let me know if you have further questions.