Standard feature analysis tools in the ArcGIS Enterprise portal generate new hosted feature layers as their output. The ArcGIS relational data store is the required component for storing and managing the data for these hosted feature layers. It is the primary data repository for an organization's hosted vector data, enabling spatial analysis, editing, and sharing capabilities through the portal. The relational data store is a mandatory component of a base ArcGIS Enterprise deployment configured as a hosting server.

A. Spatiotemporal big data store: This is an optional data store used specifically for real-time data archiving and for running GeoAnalytics Tools, not the standard feature analysis tools.

C. Tile cache data store: This data store is used to store caches for hosted 3D scene layers, which improves drawing performance, but it does not store feature data.

D. File-based geodatabase: While a file geodatabase can be a data source for publishing layers, it is not the managed data store used by ArcGIS Enterprise to store the output of analysis tools run within the portal.

1. Esri ArcGIS Enterprise Documentation. "What is ArcGIS Data Store?". ArcGIS Enterprise 11.0 Documentation. Accessed October 2023.

Section: Relational data store: "A relational data store stores data for the hosted feature layers that are created when you... run analysis tools in Map Viewer or ArcGIS Pro... It is the data storage component for a hosting server." This directly confirms that the relational data store is required for the output of standard analysis tools.

2. Esri ArcGIS Enterprise Documentation. "Data and publishing in ArcGIS Enterprise". ArcGIS Enterprise 11.0 Documentation. Accessed October 2023.

Section: Copy data: "When you publish a hosted feature layer... the data is always copied to the relational data store that is registered with the hosting server." This clarifies that hosted layers

the output of the described workflow

reside in the relational data store.

3. Esri ArcGIS Enterprise Documentation. "An overview of the ArcGIS Data Store configuration process". ArcGIS Enterprise 11.0 Documentation. Accessed October 2023.

Section: Overview: "At a minimum

you must create a relational data store. You can optionally configure a tile cache data store

spatiotemporal big data store

graph store

or object store." This establishes the relational data store as the fundamental and required type for core hosting functionality.