Blob Storage Insights

What is Blob Storage?

Blob storage is a service that stores unstructured data in the cloud as objects/blobs. Blob storage can store any type of text or binary data, such as images, audio, and video files. It's often used for serving images or documents directly to a browser, storing files for distributed access, streaming video and audio, storing data for backup and restore, archiving, and disaster recovery.

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What other technologies are related to Blob Storage?

Blob Storage Competitor Technologies

Table Storage

Table Storage provides NoSQL key-attribute data storage, offering an alternative to storing certain types of data in Blob Storage, particularly structured data.

mentioned alongside Blob Storage in 36% (185) of relevant job posts

Queue Storage

Queue Storage provides a message queueing service, which is different from storing blobs, but can sometimes be used for similar purposes like managing asynchronous tasks and data processing, especially when you need durable message storage before processing.

mentioned alongside Blob Storage in 37% (107) of relevant job posts

Azure Cosmos DB

Cosmos DB is a NoSQL database service, providing an alternative to storing unstructured data in Blob Storage, offering more structured and queryable storage.

mentioned alongside Blob Storage in 3% (1.3k) of relevant job posts

Azure Data Lake

Azure Data Lake Storage is built on Blob Storage but provides hierarchical namespace and optimized analytics performance, thus is an alternative for large-scale data lake scenarios.

mentioned alongside Blob Storage in 2% (904) of relevant job posts

Blob Storage Complementary Technologies

Key Vault

Key Vault can be used to securely store and manage secrets, keys, and certificates used by applications that interact with Blob Storage.

mentioned alongside Blob Storage in 11% (728) of relevant job posts

Snow cone/ball/mobile

Azure Data Box devices (Snowball, Data Box, Data Box Heavy) are used for transferring large amounts of data to Azure, often destined for Blob Storage.

mentioned alongside Blob Storage in 100% (54) of relevant job posts

App Services

App Services can host applications that store and retrieve data from Blob Storage.

mentioned alongside Blob Storage in 8% (595) of relevant job posts