Azure storage: Core products

- [Instructor] Azure storage … is another core product of Azure. … Azure storage is used to store files, … messages, and tables. … It is massively scalable, … is durable and highly available, … as well as incredibly secure, … and it supports three types of data. … It will support structured data, … semi-structured data, … and unstructured data. … Before we get into the specific services, … we should review those three data structures. … Structured data has a schema, … is incredibly rigid, … as you can see from my graphic here. … It supports relational data. … It uses keys to relate a row in one table … to a row in another table, … and this will be very familiar to you … if you use databases … because that is the typical usage for structured data. … Azure storage will also support semi-structured data, … which uses an ad hoc schema … and has a non-relational format. … You may also hear semi-structured data also referred … to as NoSQL data. … It uses tag for data location … instead of mapping rows and columns. …