Some of the good stuff

One of the biggest features of Table Storage may be its size. Table Storage is scalable, and tables can be massive, occupying terabytes of space and containing billions of entities. There are no set limits as to the number of tables or the size of each table. Naturally, all of this data will not exist on a single node. Tables will be spread out over numerous servers, and "hot partitions" will be load balanced and located for efficient delivery. Table Storage is persistent, so if we turn our Azure instance off, our data will be restored when we turn our instance back on.

There are a couple data access options for Table Storage too. We can access tables directly via a REST API, or we can query a table via a subset of LINQ and a client library for ADO.NET Data Services.

As with other forms of data access, table queries can timeout. Each table query is limited to 1,000 results or 5 seconds of execution, whichever comes first. However, instead of throwing an error when...