The Windows Azure Platform supports various storage types:
Blobs
Tables
Queues
Local storage
Azure Drive
SQL Azure
The Windows Azure Blob Service supports the storage of two types of blobs: block supporting streamed access and page supporting random read-write access. The maximum size of a block blob is 200 GB and the maximum size of a page blob is 1 TB. Block blobs can be used to host streaming content for websites and exposed through the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN). The primary use case for page blobs is the storage of the virtual hard drive (VHD) used to back an Azure Drive. We can see more about blobs in Chapter 2, Handling Blobs in Windows Azure.
The Windows Azure Table Service provides for the schemaless storage of structured data, providing a NoSQL like feature in the Windows Azure Platform. A Windows Azure storage account can have many tables with each table comprising a collection of entities. Each entity has a Primary Key...