This document provides information about Windows Azure Storage. It notes that Windows Azure Storage stores over 9 trillion objects and can handle over 900,000 requests per second on average, totaling 2.5 trillion requests per month. It then describes the different data storage options in Windows Azure Storage including Blobs, Tables, and Queues. It also provides URLs for accessing these different data stores and links to documentation and blog posts about Windows Azure Storage.
10. Operating System Principals)
Symposium on
“Windows Azure Storage: A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency”,
ACM Symposium on Operating System Principals (SOSP), Oct. 2011
16. OData Data Type
Common Language Runtime type Details
Edm.Binary
byte[]
An array of bytes up to 64 KB in size.
Edm.Boolean
bool
A Boolean value.
Edm.DateTime
DateTime
A 64-bit value expressed as Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC). The supported DateTime
range begins from 12:00 midnight, January 1,
1601 A.D. (C.E.), UTC. The range ends at
December 31, 9999.
Edm.Double
double
A 64-bit floating point value.
Edm.Guid
Guid
A 128-bit globally unique identifier.
Edm.Int32
Int32 or int
A 32-bit integer.
Edm.Int64
Int64 or long
A 64-bit integer.
Edm.String
String
A UTF-16-encoded value. String values may be
up to 64 KB in size.
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24. Operational Data
Analytical Data
Key/Value Store
(Windows Azure Tables, Redis, …)
NoSQL
Technologies
Column Family Store
(Cassandra, HBase, …)
Document Store
(MongoDB,
CouchDB, …)
SQL
Technologies
Big Data Analytics
(HDInsight, Hadoop)
Graph Database
(Neo4J, …)
Relational Database
(SQL Database,
SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, …)
Relational Reporting
(SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, …)
Relational Analytics
(SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, …)
Provided by
Windows Azure
Runs in Windows Azure
Virtual Machines
Runs in Windows Azure
Virtual Machines and is
open source