Data services, also known as hosted data services, are services created dynamically to securely store, manage, and provide access to your data in ArcGIS. Some of the types of services that can be created are feature services, vector tile services, map tile services, image services, and scene services. Data services are typically created by importing data with the data management tools. A unique URL for the service is assigned by the system when it is created. Data services can also be created programmatically with scripting libraries such as ArcGIS API for Python and ArcGIS REST JS. Data services are managed with hosted layers (items) in a portal. Data services can be accessed through ArcGIS Maps SDKs and open source libraries using a URL and ID, or the item ID in the portal.
ArcGIS Location Platform and ArcGIS Online developers create, manage, and access data services in Esri's cloud infrastructure.
ArcGIS Enterprise developers create, manage, and access data services hosted in their own infrastructure.
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Also known as
- Hosted data services
Related terms
- data layer
- hosted layer
- service
- feature service
- image service
- vector tile service
- map tile service