Microsoft Azure Storage vs. Azure SQL Database

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I saw that there was a similar question asked several months back, but it really didn\'t address my situation well. Here it goes...

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Answer 1

You should also check your data usage pattern before deciding to use Azure Storage or SQL storage. Since Azure Storage is providing NoSQL solutions they are more geared towards non reporting base requirements. Here reporting does not mean reports but it implies that querying capabilities of the Azure storage is limited\ non optimize for various querying scenarios. With CQRS architecture the CRUD and Reporting operations are decoupled and hence a mix n match of both Azure Storage and Azure SQL can be done.