How does Azure Blob Storage differ from Azure Table Storage

Question

Azure Blob Storage and Azure Table Storage are both storage services by Microsoft Azure, but they are designed to serve different purposes.

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Azure Blob Storage and Azure Table Storage are two distinct storage services provided by Microsoft Azure, each designed for specific use cases:

Azure Blob Storage: Azure Blob Storage is designed to store large amounts of unstructured data, such as images, videos, documents, backups, logs, and other binary data. It's a scalable object storage service that allows you to store and manage data as blobs, which are essentially files stored in the cloud. Blobs are organized within containers, and you can choose between different types of blobs based on your needs, including:

• Block blobs store text and binary data. Block blobs are made up of blocks of data that can be managed individually. Block blobs can store up to about 190.7 TiB.
• Append blobs are made up of blocks like block blobs, but are optimized for append operations. Append blobs are ideal for scenarios such as logging data from virtual machines.
• Page blobs store random access files up to 8 TiB in size. Page blobs store virtual hard drive (VHD) files and serve as disks for Azure virtual machines. For more information about page blobs.

Azure Table Storage: Azure Table storage stores large amounts of structured data. The service is a NoSQL datastore which accepts authenticated calls from inside and outside the Azure cloud. Azure tables are ideal for storing structured, non-relational data. Common uses of Table storage include:

• Storing TBs of structured data capable of serving web scale applications
• Storing datasets that don't require complex joins, foreign keys, or stored procedures and can be denormalized for fast access
• Quickly querying data using a clustered index
• Accessing data using the OData protocol and LINQ queries with WCF Data Service .NET Libraries

You can use Table storage to store and query huge sets of structured, non-relational data, and your tables will scale as demand increases.

Reference Article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-introduction#sample-scenarios-for-azure-storage-services

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