https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/best-performance-for-large-buffered-areas/m-p/1177797#M26343 <P>I have a very large coastline dataset that I need to buffer and I was wondering what the best option for the best perfomance would be. This is for both an feature class in an enterprise geodatabase and a hosted feature layer. I was thinking specifically about the number of vertices that need to be drawn that would affect the performance.</P><P>The options I have are as follows:</P><OL><LI>Option A - Non-overlapping (rings) - Outside Polygons Only</LI><LI>Option B - Non-overlapping (rings)</LI><LI>Option C -&nbsp;Overlapping (discs) - Outside Polygons Only</LI><LI>Option D - Overlapping (discs)</LI></OL><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="julian_svcs_0-1653608352099.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/42263i74A8D2D5C2567273/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="julian_svcs_0-1653608352099.png" alt="julian_svcs_0-1653608352099.png" /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">julian_svcs_0-1653608352099.png</span></span></P><P>Thanks very much.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 26 May 2022 23:41:36 GMT julian_svcs 2022-05-26T23:41:36Z https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/best-performance-for-large-buffered-areas/m-p/1177797#M26343 <P>I have a very large coastline dataset that I need to buffer and I was wondering what the best option for the best perfomance would be. This is for both an feature class in an enterprise geodatabase and a hosted feature layer. I was thinking specifically about the number of vertices that need to be drawn that would affect the performance.</P><P>The options I have are as follows:</P><OL><LI>Option A - Non-overlapping (rings) - Outside Polygons Only</LI><LI>Option B - Non-overlapping (rings)</LI><LI>Option C -&nbsp;Overlapping (discs) - Outside Polygons Only</LI><LI>Option D - Overlapping (discs)</LI></OL><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="julian_svcs_0-1653608352099.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/42263i74A8D2D5C2567273/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="julian_svcs_0-1653608352099.png" alt="julian_svcs_0-1653608352099.png" /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">julian_svcs_0-1653608352099.png</span></span></P><P>Thanks very much.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 26 May 2022 23:41:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/best-performance-for-large-buffered-areas/m-p/1177797#M26343 julian_svcs 2022-05-26T23:41:36Z