ArcGIS Image Server vs ArcSDE - Comparison of managed raster datasets
Given the response to our last raster post and the interest in image server, I talked with the Raster team to see if we could do a follow up post which compared storing rasters in a geodatabase to using image server. Melanie Harlow, a product engineer on the raster team, directed me to an in-house paper which does exactly that. We were thinking about turning this information into a white paper, but given the amount of interest I thought I’d post it up here first so people can get a look at it.
Hopefully this information can answer some questions about managing your raster data, and guide you as to which technology is best suited to your workflow.