{"id":2963986,"date":"2026-05-18T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2963986"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:57:34","slug":"introducing-support-for-document-databases-in-arcgis-pro-and-arcgis-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/data-management\/introducing-support-for-document-databases-in-arcgis-pro-and-arcgis-enterprise","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Support for Document Databases in ArcGIS Pro & ArcGIS Enterprise"},"author":325202,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851],"tags":[42301,42181,25351,770542],"industry":[],"product":[36571,36561],"class_list":["post-2963986","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","tag-arcgis-enterprise","tag-arcgis-pro","tag-big-data","tag-data-integration","product-arcgis-enterprise","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":325202,"user_firstname":"Sarah","user_lastname":"Hanson","nickname":"Sarah Hanson","user_nicename":"shanson","display_name":"Sarah Hanson","user_email":"shanson@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2023-01-11 15:54:54","user_description":"Sarah is a Product Manager on the ArcGIS Enterprise team, focused on data management. She also manages ArcGIS Data Pipelines, a native data integration capability in ArcGIS. In her free time, Sarah loves to explore new places and spend time outdoors.","user_avatar":""},{"ID":293902,"user_firstname":"Nana","user_lastname":"Dei","nickname":"Nana Y. Dei","user_nicename":"ndeiesri-com_esriinc","display_name":"Nana Dei","user_email":"ndei@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2021-11-24 22:03:56","user_description":"Nana is a Product Manager on the ArcGIS Pro team, focusing on the product's data management capabilities. In his free time, he enjoys travelling, playing Scrabble, and shooting pool.","user_avatar":""},{"ID":363692,"user_firstname":"Colin","user_lastname":"Kelly","nickname":"Colin Kelly","user_nicename":"c-kelly","display_name":"Colin Kelly","user_email":"c.kelly@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2024-10-21 20:28:59","user_description":"Colin Kelly is a Senior Solution Engineer on Esri's National Government - Intel team. Colin uses his 8 years as an Intelligence Analyst in the Air Force, and 7 years at Esri to engineer solutions for users across the Intelligence Community, specializing in imagery analysis, AI, and advanced Enterprise workflows.","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"The ArcGIS platform expands access to integrate data from two commonly used document databases: Elasticsearch and OpenSearch.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

More and more organizations are using Elasticsearch or OpenSearch to store and analyze large volumes of operational, observational, and event driven data – and maybe your organization is following a similar pattern. Increasingly, this data also has spatial value, whether it represents locations, assets, sensors, or activity over time.<\/p>\n

With ArcGIS Pro 3.5 and ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0, ArcGIS natively supports Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, making it easier to integrate data from these document databases directly into your GIS for visualization, analysis, and sharing, without custom connectors or intermediate data movement.<\/p>\n

Initial support was first introduced in ArcGIS Pro 3.5 in May 2025, with web services support made available in ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 in November 2025. Together, these releases allow you to connect to document databases, work with the data in ArcGIS Pro, and publish query layers to ArcGIS Enterprise as map image layers and feature layers.<\/p>\n

To see this integration in action, watch the video below.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"kaltura","video_id":"1_6gczr2zm","time":false,"start":0},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

What is a document database?<\/h3>\n

Document databases are a type of non\u2011relational, or NoSQL, database designed for both flexibility and scale. Unlike relational databases, they do not enforce a fixed schema, which allows datasets to evolve over time as their data structure requirements change. They are also built to scale horizontally, distributing data across multiple nodes and supporting both high availability and high\u2011velocity read\/write throughput.<\/p>\n

Elasticsearch and OpenSearch are commonly used as distributed search and analytics engines, and many organizations also use them as primary or secondary data stores for large volumes of semi\u2011structured data. This includes observational data, logs, events, and other records that grow continuously and are frequently queried for analysis.<\/p>\n

For GIS users, this means valuable spatial or location\u2011aware data may already exist in these systems, data that can now be brought directly into ArcGIS for mapping and analytics.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Connect to Elasticsearch and OpenSearch in ArcGIS Pro<\/h3>\n

To connect to Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, you will need ArcGIS Pro 3.5 or later. Unlike many traditional database connections, no client drivers are required. Instead, connections are made directly over HTTP, simplifying setup and reducing machine\u2011level dependencies.<\/p>\n

Once connected, users can securely integrate their data with ArcGIS Pro. For more details, see:<\/p>\n