Skipping Shape and FileGDB. And skipping databases. What is the best / most feature rich file format to open in ArcGIS ? GeoPackage? SQLITE?
I think it is hard to answer this question. Do you want to be able to open the data in ArcGIS Desktop/Pro or is it just about storing the data?
I could say Personal Geodatabase, but it is a database as well. And I don't think you can directly Read a EsriJSON file in Desktop or Pro. So what do you want to do with it?
I think it is hard to answer this question. Do you want to be able to open the data in ArcGIS Desktop/Pro or is it just about storing the data?
I could say Personal Geodatabase, but it is a database as well. And I don't think you can directly Read a EsriJSON file in Desktop or Pro. So what do you want to do with it?
To my knowledge ArcGIS does not distinguish between SQLITE or GeoPackage, they are just different schemas and ways of storing geometries in a SQLite-db and apparently cross-functional for some time.
desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/databases/sqlite-and-arcgis.htm#
You're constraining yourself a lot here... I would probably go for GeoPackage, since it seems to have a promising future, which ESRI seems to want to be a part of:
http://www.esri.com/esri-news/releases/14-2qtr/esri-supports-ogc-geopackage-encoding-standard
A weird alternative, and maybe not to data-rich, could be DWG. But all is depending on the data you wish to store.
Oh, and if it's rasters you need: NetCDF is hard to beat in terms of features.
You're constraining yourself a lot here... I would probably go for GeoPackage, since it seems to have a promising future, which ESRI seems to want to be a part of:
http://www.esri.com/esri-news/releases/14-2qtr/esri-supports-ogc-geopackage-encoding-standard
A weird alternative, and maybe not to data-rich, could be DWG. But all is depending on the data you wish to store.
Oh, and if it's rasters you need: NetCDF is hard to beat in terms of features.
And you didn't say it needed to be new...
And you didn't say it needed to be new... ;-)