Collective term for database "behaviors"

[AmyRoust]

Many years ago, I took an Esri instructor-led class where I learned that things like geometric networks, trace networks, parcel fabrics, etc could be lumped together under an umbrella term called "behaviors". When I Google that term, however, I do not find it in any of the Esri documentation. Is there a collective noun that can be used for special functionality that requires the feature classes that participate in it to be in a feature dataset?

[rcGIS]

Hello @AmyRoust, curious of your question I did a quick search and I see the term 'behavior' is used in, for example, these two recent Esri geodatabase-realated docs: 1 and 2; you'll see them by doing a CTRL + F.

But I couldn't find a clear 'geodatabase behaviors' Esri doc so far. Hopefully someone else will point to it. 

Leaving also this deprecated video of Esri Canada since it might be helpful. There is a section in the video (starting min 38:29) titled 'Geodatabase behavior'.

[AmyRoust]

You found more than I was able to track down! Thank you.

[ChrisUnderwood]

Hello @AmyRoust , perhaps add the search term "Geodatabase", eg "Geodatabase behaviors", "Geodatabase functionality", "Geodatabase feature dataset" etc ?

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/feature-datasets/feature-datasets-in-arcgis-pro.h...

[AmyRoust]

That link is interesting - the list of what I would call "behaviors" on that page are described as "supported data types." That's a pretty generic term that could be used to describe feature classes and tables, I would think. Interesting, though, that there is no use of the word "behaviors" on that documentation. Perhaps it's not a ubiquitous term. Thank you for sharing that!

[George_Thompson · Accepted solution]

I usually call it "Advanced Geodatabase Functionality" for these type of items.

See some of the terminology here: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/3.3/help/data/geodatabases/overview/fundamentals-of-the-geodatabas...

[AmyRoust]

I think that's the correct answer, George! Thank you.