Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

Table storage

High availability and scalability are key factors when you want to work with your storage, and that is exactly what is offered by Table storage. Table storage is a Microsoft NoSQL data store that can be used for the massive amount of semi-structured, non-relational data.

Data is stored in tables as a collection of entities, where entities are like rows, and each entity has a primary key and a set of properties, considering that a property is like a column.

The Table storage service is schema-less, therefore multiple entities in the same table may have different properties.

An entity has three properties:

• PartitionKey
• RowKey
• Timestamp