Comments on: I Hate Persistence (but love Azure Table Storage)

By: David

David — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:37:04 +0000

Hmmm, I’m patiently waiting for EF4 – it keeps me from shooting myself…

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:24:48 +0000

Can’t agree more really. Linq to SQL is exactly what we’ve all been looking for in an ORM tool. It’s simple to setup, “just works”, and no more writing SQL (gasp!). One complaint – you can’t sync it with the db, oh well. And just as it started gaining real popularity (StackOverflow uses it), MS pulled support and threw us EF which, while it is good, it is not as simple as L2S.

Azure Table Storage is wonderful. We have to shift our mindset from using a relational model to that of the flat storage model that huge companies like Amazon & Facebook are using. But it’s hugely scalable, pretty damn fast, and easy to use since there’s no schema. On the sort order problem, well, just use Linq to Entities to sort and mangle the data as you please. Now can someone please write a firefox plugin for azure table/blob/queue?

By: KeHoeff

KeHoeff — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:55:40 +0000

hey this is a very interesting article!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:45:34 +0000

Hey Jason, when I was first getting started with ATS I feared the same thing also. But luckily, someone on StackOverflow was able to clear up the confusion. It's a marketing blunder- Azure Table Storage is part of the Azure Platform. What's going away is a component of Sql Data Services called ACE (Account/Container/Entity) storage. Sql Data Services is an expansion of the cloud services platform which includes Liver Services and the .NET Service Bus. The Sql Data Services team is abandoning the ACE approach in favor of the full relational model they want in the cloud, which will be just like running a sql server db in the cloud (with normal sql like syntax, etc).

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:41:57 +0000

CouchDB looks pretty slick- definitely a lot of potential. Plus, doesn’t require the cloud! A good Json Serializer will make the .NET/Http integration pretty fluid.

By: Jason Short

Jason Short — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:03:15 +0000

I thought MS had stated that the current Azure Table Storage model was going away due to feedback from developers that they wanted a more ADO.NET like experience. That would mean the one thing you liked is going to get dropped to go back to the status quo…

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:05:03 +0000

Hmmm… CouchDB? Yes, it’s young and immature but it has legs.

By: DotNetShoutout

DotNetShoutout — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:57:30 +0000

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