Azure Blob storage
- Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud
- offers three types of resources
- storage account
- storage account provides a unique namespace in Azurer for your data.
- The combination of the account name and the Blob Storage endpoint forms the base address for the objects in the storage account(eg.
http://mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net)
- container
- organizes a set of blobs, similar to a directory in a file system
- blob
- Block blobs : store text and binary data
- Append blobs : are made of blocks like block blobs, but are optimized for append operations, ideal for scenarios such as logging data from VMs
- Page blobs : store random access files up to 8TiB in size. Page blobs store virtual hard drive files and servce as disks for Azure virtual machine.
- storage account
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Azure Blob Storage 기반의 빅 데이터에 특화된 set of capabilities