Arc Hydro and Arc Hydro Groundwater hydrological data model are favored by scholars in the joint simulation of surface water and groundwater, but empirical researches on whether hydrological simulation can apply Arc Hydro and Arc Hydro Groundwater model are lack. According to this problem, the functions and advantages of these two hydrological models were analyzed, furthermore, the remaining problems and the development trend were also discussed by a review of a large number of documents. It is pointed out that although Arc Hydro has function of strong hydrological analysis and extraction, this model cannot realize hydrological simulation, data exchange is necessary to complete hydrological simulation with independent hydrological model. Arc Hydro Groundwater contains MODFLOW analysis model, however, it only can visualize process for MODFLOW model outputs and does not yet have independent groundwater simulation function. The development of integrated platform combining joint simulation model of surface water and groundwater with GIS coupling is supposed to be a hot research.