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What is Azure Blob Storage?

It is a massively scalable and secure object storage for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning
Azure Blob Storage is a tool in the Cloud Storage category of a tech stack.

Who uses Azure Blob Storage?

Companies
8 companies reportedly use Azure Blob Storage in their tech stacks, including Scription, UpSync, and KI/ML.

Developers
9 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Azure Blob Storage.

Azure Blob Storage Integrations

Python, Node.js, Java, .NET, and Superblocks are some of the popular tools that integrate with Azure Blob Storage. Here's a list of all 10 tools that integrate with Azure Blob Storage.
Decisions about Azure Blob Storage

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Azure Blob Storage in their tech stack.

RJ Rikiz

I want to migrate files from Microsoft SharePoint Server to Azure Blob Storage using PowerShell. It seems I got a lot of files not found problems and connection/permission issues. I tried to fetch files from SharePoint Server but turns out to be not working.

Since I don't have the knowledge to evaluate this choice correctly, and since it is fundamental to the success of the project, I wanted to know the community's opinion on the matter.

Thank you :)

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DruidDruidKafkaKafka
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Apache SparkApache Spark

My process is like this: I would get data once a month, either from Google BigQuery or as parquet files from Azure Blob Storage. I have a script that does some cleaning and then stores the result as partitioned parquet files because the following process cannot handle loading all data to memory.

The next process is making a heavy computation in a parallel fashion (per partition), and storing 3 intermediate versions as parquet files: two used for statistics, and the third will be filtered and create the final files.

I make a report based on the two files in Jupyter notebook and convert it to HTML.

  • Everything is done with vanilla python and Pandas.
  • sometimes I may get a different format of data
  • cloud service is Microsoft Azure.

What I'm considering is the following:

Get the data with Kafka or with native python, do the first processing, and store data in Druid, the second processing will be done with Apache Spark getting data from apache druid.

the intermediate states can be stored in druid too. and visualization would be with apache superset.

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Azure Blob Storage's Features

  • Scalable, durable, and available
  • Secured
  • Optimized for data lakes
  • Comprehensive data management

Azure Blob Storage Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Azure Blob Storage?
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage allows world-wide storing and retrieval of any amount of data and at any time. It provides a simple programming interface which enables developers to take advantage of Google's own reliable and fast networking infrastructure to perform data operations in a secure and cost effective manner. If expansion needs arise, developers can benefit from the scalability provided by Google's infrastructure.
Azure Storage
Azure Storage provides the flexibility to store and retrieve large amounts of unstructured data, such as documents and media files with Azure Blobs; structured nosql based data with Azure Tables; reliable messages with Azure Queues, and use SMB based Azure Files for migrating on-premises applications to the cloud.
Amazon EBS
Amazon EBS volumes are network-attached, and persist independently from the life of an instance. Amazon EBS provides highly available, highly reliable, predictable storage volumes that can be attached to a running Amazon EC2 instance and exposed as a device within the instance. Amazon EBS is particularly suited for applications that require a database, file system, or access to raw block level storage.
Minio
Minio is an object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 and licensed under Apache 2.0 License
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Azure Blob Storage's Followers
9 developers follow Azure Blob Storage to keep up with related blogs and decisions.