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2. Introduction to Azure Table Storage
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Introduction to Azure Table Storage
Gus Apostol
Principal Program Manager
Windows Azure Storage
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3. Azure Storage Foundational building block of the Azure Cloud
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Azure Storage
Foundational building block of the Azure Cloud
Microsoft & Azure Services - XBOX, Skype, Office 365, Azure SQL DW, Event Hubs
Hyper Scale
>100 Trillion objects stored and >12 Million transactions per second
Durability Options
Locally Redundant (LRS), Zone Redundant (ZRS), Geo-Redundant (GRS)
Availability
99.9% for reads/writes, 99.99% for reads with RA-GRS, backed by SLA
Open, multi-platform, multi-language support
Open Source Client libraries - .NET, Java, C++, Node.js, Android, Xamarin, Python, Ruby, PHP, iOS
Hybrid
Azure Stack in Windows Server 2016 includes Azure Table Storage
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4. Azure Storage Offerings
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Azure Storage Offerings
Blobs
Highly scalable, REST based cloud object store
Block Blobs: Sequential file I/O
Page Blobs: Random-write pattern data
Tables
Massive auto-scaling NoSQL store
Dynamic scaling based on load
Scale to PBs of table data
Fast key/value lookups
Queues
Reliable queues at scale for cloud services
Decouple and scale components
Message visibility timeout and update message to protect against unreliable dequeuers
Disks
Persistent disks for Azure IaaS VMs
Built on page blobs
Premium Storage Disks: SSD based, high IOPS, low latency
Files
Fully Managed File Shares in the Cloud
Map to file share, standard file system semantics
“Lift and shift” legacy apps
Code against (REST API)
Use on Windows & Linux VMs
Azure Storage Documentation
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5. What is the Azure Table Storage service?
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What is the Azure Table Storage service?
Scenarios
Online shopping cart, user profile data, device and service metadata
Key-Value NoSQL Store
Optimized for key based lookups
Store 100s of TBs in a single table (shard for PBs)
Strongly consistent
Dynamic resource allocation
Very high transaction volumes
Cost efficient
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6. Azure Table Storage Concepts
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Azure Table Storage Concepts
Microsoft Azure
Subscription 1
Storage Account 1
PK, RK
Tables 1 .. n
Subscription 2
Storage Account 2
Subscription...n
Storage Account...n
Contoso
Azure Storage Table Design Guide
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7. Azure Table example Gaming Partition Key Row Key Properties
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Azure Table example
Gaming
Row Keys uniquely identifies entity within partition
Each entity contains a set of properties
Partition Key
Row Key
Properties
SpeedM5
GameProfile
DateCreated=08/05/2004
Location=Germany
Subscription=Gold
TitleHistory
Game=RaceTime
Achievements
Level=Champion
RacerX25
DateCreated=01/29/2001
Location=US
Subscription=Silver
Entities with same Partition Keys are always served by a single Table Server
Properties don’t need to be the same for each entity
Azure Storage Performance, Scale and Security
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8. Transactions & Concurrency
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Transactions & Concurrency
Entity Group Transactions
Perform atomic updates across multiple entities or “batch operations”
Atomic transactions requires entities be in the same partition
A single Entity Group Transaction can operate on at most 100 entities
Multiple concurrent EGTs will cause delays or the entire batch to fail
Table Concurrency
Most applications support multiple users reading & writing data concurrently
Storage supports Pessimistic, Optimistic and Last Writer concurrency models
Azure Table Storage defaults to optimistic concurrency
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9. Demo Getting started with Azure Tables in 5 minutes!
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Demo
Getting started with Azure Tables in 5 minutes!
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10. Storage Access Control Strategies
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Storage Access Control Strategies
Multiple Access Control strategies
Storage account key – full access
Shared access signature (SAS) – token with configurable rights and time
Public – Blob storage only
Shared Access Signature
Resources – containers, blobs, queues, tables, table ranges, account (coming soon!)
Permissions – read, write, delete
Time – start time, end time
IP address or range
Protocol HTTP or HTTPS protocol lock down
T00%3A12%3A08Z& sr=c&sp=wl&
sig=t%2BbzU9%2B7ry4okULN9S0wst%2F8MCUhTjrHyV9rDNLSe8g%3Dsss
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11. Storage Monitoring and Diagnostics
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Storage Monitoring and Diagnostics
Metrics
“Service health statistics”
Perfmon for Storage with >40 metric types for Blobs, Tables and Queues
Summarized by hour and minute (w/ < 5 min delay)
Granularity and retention policies
Stored in tables – $MetricsMinuteTransactionsBlob
Analytics Logs
“Service trace logs”
Storage equivalent of IIS logs
All REST operations are logged
Includes most request characteristics such as Timestamp, Status Code, Operation, E2ELatency
Use this for diagnosis and troubleshooting
Stored in blobs in a container called $logs
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12. Other Azure Data Services
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Other Azure Data Services
Tables
“Key Value, high scale, auto-scaling NoSQL store”
Scenarios: User, device and service metadata, structured data
No limits on number of table rows or table size
Dynamic load balancing of hot tables and table regions
NoSQL - Schema-less entities with strong consistency
Best for Key/value lookups on partition key and row key
Entity group transactions for atomic batching
DocumentDB
“NoSQL document database service”
Scenarios: Modern applications that use JSON data stores (like MongoDB)
Flexible schema for iterative application development
Automatic indexing with SQL query interface
Transactional support for multi-document operations
Scalable database storage with predictable low latency performance
Azure SQL DB
“Fully managed database-as-a-service built on SQL”
Scenarios: Relational DBs without infrastructure/management hassle
Fully compatible with SQL Server 2014 databases
Built for both SaaS and Enterprise applications
Elastic database pool for unpredictable SaaS workloads
99.99% availability built-in
Geo-replication and restore services for data protection
Secure and compliant for your sensitive data
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13. Key Takeaways Azure Table Storage Call to Action!
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Key Takeaways
Azure Table Storage
Key-value NoSQL Store
Optimized for key based lookups
Store 100s of TBs in a single table (shard for PBs)
Strongly consistent
Dynamic resource allocation
Very high transaction volumes
Cost efficient
Call to Action!
Get started in 5 minutes!
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Additional Resources
Azure Storage Documentation
Azure Storage Table Design Guide
Azure Storage Perf & Scale Checklist
Managing Concurrency
Monitor Azure Storage
Re-visit Build on Channel 9
Continue your education at Microsoft Virtual Academy online
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