Table API in Azure Cosmos DB

It is possible to leverage the premium offering for Table Storage using Azure Cosmos DB. Using that option has the following advantages:

  • Automatic and manual failovers.
  • Secondary indexes (the ability to index against all properties inside a row).
  • Independent scaling across multiple regions.
  • Different consistency levels.
  • Dedicated throughput per table.

While failover can be achieved using Table Storage only, the rest of the presented features are available only for Azure Cosmos DB, and can be a great solution when you like the simplicity of this service and still want to challenge it against more complicated scenarios.

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