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Azure for Developers - Third Edition
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In the first part of this chapter, we talked about Table Storage, which could be used as a database for our application. While Table Storage is perfect for storing data in semi-structured format (rows inside a table but without struct schema), it can’t help you in storing unstructured data or files. For those cases, we have Blob Storage – another service offered by Azure Storage, which you can use as a generic storage. However, what does generic storage mean? Let’s try to explain the term here.
Most applications require some kind of storage. The nature of storage depends on the business requirements for those applications – those requirements shape the domain implemented by an application and tell architects and developers what technology will be suited the most to help with the implementation. If the data stored by an application has relations, a relational database will definitely be a good match. If...