Azure Table Storage
Azure Table Storage is a scalable key-value store held in the cloud.
- Items are Rows
- Fields are Columns
- No relationships
- No stored procedures
- Denormalized data
- Grouping related rows based on partition key
Advantages of Azure Table Storage
- Simpler to scale
- Semi-structured data
- No complex relationships
- Fast row insertion
- Faster data retrieval
- High-availability in a single region
Use Cases of Azure Table Storage
- Support large volumes of data (100s of TBs)
- Fast access to denormalized data
- Event logging
- Performance monitoring data