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Hands-On Azure for Developers
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Hands-On Azure for Developers

by Kamil Mrzygłód
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
606 pages
15h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Table

While you can use Azure Storage Table for your applications (which will be covered in upcoming chapters), it is possible to also take advantage of Cosmos DB's Table API and consider more advanced scenarios with that service. There are some differences between both services:

  • While the current maximum limit for operations in Azure Storage Tables is 20,000 operations/sec, with Cosmos DB you can achieve millions of them
  • You cannot initiate failover for Storage Table
  • In Cosmos DB, data is indexed on all properties, not only on the partition key and row key
  • Different pricing (storage versus throughput)
  • Different consistency levels

Developing against Cosmos DB Table API is the same as working with Azure Table Storage. The following is an ...

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