To work with these services you need an azure account and as well subscription
**Azure Blob Storage ** is another popular service used to store different type of data like Images/videos/files/table data/disk files.
- Provides different serivces
- Blob for Images/videos
- Table for table data (Rows and Columns)
- Queue for processing messages (Sending <=> Recieving)
- File is used to store any type of files and we can share those.
Pacakge to work with Blob Storage
dotnet add package Azure.Storage.Blobs
Note: The code samples on azure_blob_demos based on above package with version is 12.9.1.
There is another package from Microsoft for blob storage which is going to depricated in coming days: Microsoft.Azure.Storage.Blob and version is 11.2.2.
Important values are container and connectionstring to connect blob and do operations like
- Create a container
- Delete a container
- Read the container
- Add a blob insider the container
- Delete a blob from a container
Package to work with Table storage
dotnet add package Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos
Azure table storage is a
- Schemaless
- Non-relational data structure
- Important keys are partition key and Rowkey
- For update, Delete these two keys are mandatory to fetch and do CRUD operations
- BulkInsert operation is also available.
Before actually known about this Azure cosmos DB. First breif about this Cosmos DB,
- No SQL Database Store
- No Relationships between entities
- No performance overheads like joins
- No need to define pre - schema
Azure Cosmos DB is another popular service used to store data using different DB Service API's.
- Is one of service in Azure
- Automatically scales in terms of storage
- automatically scales in terms of compute
- Also supports many API's - SQL,MongoDB, Cassandra, Tables, Germlin
- No need to bother about infrastructure like VM - Its a fully serverless service.
Official site for Notification hubs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-windows-store-dotnet-get-started-wns-push-notification