History
When we wrote the last edition of this book, we provided brief coverage of a cloud service from Microsoft called SQL Server Data Services (SSDS), which was in beta. Although that service used SQL Server as its infrastructure, it presented an interface to the developer that was completely different from the relational structure of SQL Server. SSDS used a model called “ACE,” which stood for Authority-Container-Entity, and was essentially a key-value store NoSQL database (although we didn’t have the vocabulary at the time to call it that).
Subsequent to the beta release of SSDS, two things happened: (1) Microsoft launched Azure Table Storage (among other services), which had a model very similar to ACE, and (2) feedback came in from SQL Server ...
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