Hello all, is there any advantage/disadvantage to use shapefiles or personal geodatabase as data source to be send to ArcGIS for Server 10.1 when publishing a service? What is the data format that ArcGIS for Server 10.1 is storing the data? Any difference which data format the source data is?
Personal Geodatabases are no longer supported with ArcGIS Server 10.1, so I would not recommend using that to store data you want to publish. This is documented under the 'Discontinued Functionality' section at the following link:
As far as shapefile and file geodatabase, there shouldn't be any difference in performance if you copy the data to the server when you publish. If you copy data, it will be stored in a file geodatabase on the server and the service will reference that.
If you do not copy the data to the server, then you would see the best performance storing your data in a file geodatabase rather than in shapefile format. The following link has some old but still relevant information on FGDB performance:
Personal Geodatabases are no longer supported with ArcGIS Server 10.1, so I would not recommend using that to store data you want to publish. This is documented under the 'Discontinued Functionality' section at the following link:
As far as shapefile and file geodatabase, there shouldn't be any difference in performance if you copy the data to the server when you publish. If you copy data, it will be stored in a file geodatabase on the server and the service will reference that.
If you do not copy the data to the server, then you would see the best performance storing your data in a file geodatabase rather than in shapefile format. The following link has some old but still relevant information on FGDB performance:
