Esri Geodatabase (File Geodb Open API) Reader/Writer

FME can store data in and retrieve data from Esri’s File Geodatabase, based on the Esri File Geodatabase API.

You can use this format without an Esri license or special installed libraries.

Note  Using the File Geodb Open API reader/writer can benefit workspace performance and speed, but it offers less functionality than with some other Esri Geodatabase formats. For example, this format supports only simple geometry types, and does not support some attribute types (like 64-bit integers) and some date/time types.

Versions

This format supports File Geodatabases created with any version of ArcGIS Pro, as well as ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Enterprise Version 10.0 or newer.

For more information, see:

Esri Geodatabase (File Geodb Open API) Product and System Requirements

Format

FME Platform

Operating System

Reader/Writer

FME Form

FME Flow

FME Flow Hosted

Windows 64-bit

Linux

macOS

Reader

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

- Linux Intel: Yes

- Linux ARM: No

- macOS Intel: Yes

- macOS ARM: No

Writer

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

- Linux Intel: Yes

- Linux ARM: No

- macOS Intel: Yes

- macOS ARM: No

Overview

The Geodatabase reader and writer translates several different types of features:

  • reading and writing of point, line, polygon, and multipoint feature classes
  • partial reading of some of the other File Geodatabase types (for example, dimensions, parcel fabrics) exposed using the basic geometric types listed above
  • reading and writing of non-spatial tables

Reader Overview

The reader extracts data from the selected File Geodatabase using the File Geodatabase API.

ArcGIS feature classes and tables become FME feature types, and ArcGIS features and rows become FME features. For feature classes within a feature dataset, the FME feature type name is formed as follows: <feature dataset name>/<feature class name>.

As with other database readers in FME, the Format Parameters are used to determine which feature classes and tables to read. WHERE clauses and bounding box constraints can be used to further limit the data read.

Writer Overview

The writer exports data to a new or existing File Geodatabase using the File Geodatabase API.

Note  Because tables are considered to have complex behavior, the Geodatabase API writer does not support writing to tables that participate in a relationship.

Other tables/feature classes that are not supported:

  • Annotation and Dimension feature classes
  • Relationship Classes
  • Networks (GN and ND)
  • Topologies
  • Terrains
  • Representations
  • Parcel Fabrics