Azure Tables or SQL Azure?

Question

I am at the planning stage of a web application that will be hosted in Azure with ASP.NET for the web site and Silverlight within the site for a rich user experience. Should I u

Answer 1

Despite similar names SQL Azure Tables and Table Storage have very little in common.

Here are a two links that might help you:

• Table Storage, a 100x cost factor
• Fat Entities on Table Storage

Basically, the first question should wonder about is Does my app really need to scale? If not, then go for SQL Azure.