topic Hosted Feature Service VS SDE and Arc Server in Deploying ArcGIS Solution in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/hosted-feature-service-vs-sde-and-arc-server-in/m-p/327662#M12565 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am relatively new to an Enterprise deployment, in the past, I have published to my Arc Server and consumed the services via AGOL.&nbsp; I have been using ArcPro off and on for over a year and started messing around and testing ArcGIS Solutions.&nbsp; I in the past, because of service credits, not experimented with&nbsp; Hosted Feature Layers in AGOL so I have not put in the leg work to know the particular ins and outs of working with feature layers.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Am I better off&nbsp;using the same workflow as before of&nbsp;creating the data sets on my SDE and publishing&nbsp;to the Server and consuming the service&nbsp;in an ArcGIS Solution or use a Hosted Feature Service?</P><P></P><P>My guess from what I have gathered is that depends on the number of Schema modifications that are required&nbsp;to the data sets that come with the ArcGIS Solution.&nbsp; It appears that it is much more difficult to do a schema change on a Hosted Feature Layer than on an SDE dataset.&nbsp; I am just curious if there is a lot more to it than that?</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 May 2019 16:00:55 GMT BobFolsom1 2019-05-07T16:00:55Z Hosted Feature Service VS SDE and Arc Server in Deploying ArcGIS Solution https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/hosted-feature-service-vs-sde-and-arc-server-in/m-p/327662#M12565 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am relatively new to an Enterprise deployment, in the past, I have published to my Arc Server and consumed the services via AGOL.&nbsp; I have been using ArcPro off and on for over a year and started messing around and testing ArcGIS Solutions.&nbsp; I in the past, because of service credits, not experimented with&nbsp; Hosted Feature Layers in AGOL so I have not put in the leg work to know the particular ins and outs of working with feature layers.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Am I better off&nbsp;using the same workflow as before of&nbsp;creating the data sets on my SDE and publishing&nbsp;to the Server and consuming the service&nbsp;in an ArcGIS Solution or use a Hosted Feature Service?</P><P></P><P>My guess from what I have gathered is that depends on the number of Schema modifications that are required&nbsp;to the data sets that come with the ArcGIS Solution.&nbsp; It appears that it is much more difficult to do a schema change on a Hosted Feature Layer than on an SDE dataset.&nbsp; I am just curious if there is a lot more to it than that?</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 May 2019 16:00:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/hosted-feature-service-vs-sde-and-arc-server-in/m-p/327662#M12565 BobFolsom1 2019-05-07T16:00:55Z Re: Hosted Feature Service VS SDE and Arc Server in Deploying ArcGIS Solution https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/hosted-feature-service-vs-sde-and-arc-server-in/m-p/327663#M12566 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Here is a good white paper regarding this topic:&nbsp;<A href="https://assets.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/en-us/media/whitepaper/data-in-arcgis-user-managed-and-arcgis-managed.pdf">https://assets.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/en-us/media/whitepaper/data-in-arcgis-user-managed-and-arcgis-managed.pdf</A></P><P></P><P>Here are some other links to review:</P><P></P><P><A href="https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/use/hosted-web-layers.htm">https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/use/hosted-web-layers.htm</A></P><P></P><P><A href="https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/manage-data/windows/enterprise-geodatabases-and-arcgis-enterprise.htm">https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/manage-data/windows/enterprise-geodatabases-and-arcgis-enterprise.htm</A></P><P></P><P><A href="https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/use/share-feature-layers-from-an-enterprise-geodatabase.htm">https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/use/share-feature-layers-from-an-enterprise-geodatabase.htm</A></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 May 2019 16:16:48 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/hosted-feature-service-vs-sde-and-arc-server-in/m-p/327663#M12566 George_Thompson 2019-05-07T16:16:48Z