Hands-On Azure for Developers

Table API in Azure Cosmos DB

It is possible to leverage the premium offering for Table Storage using Azure Cosmos DB. Using that option has the following advantages:

• Automatic and manual failovers.
• Secondary indexes (the ability to index against all properties inside a row).
• Independent scaling across multiple regions.
• Different consistency levels.
• Dedicated throughput per table.

While failover can be achieved using Table Storage only, the rest of the presented features are available only for Azure Cosmos DB, and can be a great solution when you like the simplicity of this service and still want to challenge it against more complicated scenarios.