From the course: Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203) Cert Prep: 1 Design and Implement Data Storage

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Implement data storage structures

Implement data storage structures

- [Instructor] Let's dive into data storage structures on Azure and get into some of the fundamental components. First, we have file storage structures, we have NoSQL structures, and we have analytical databases, really three different categories with subcategories underneath. So let's go ahead and look at the file storage system first. Really, it's composed of a couple options here. We have Azure Storage blobs and Azure Data Lake Store. So with Azure Storage blobs, they're a managed storage service that's highly available, secure, durable, scalable, redundant, and it's really the ability to store pictures, documents, HTML files, hard disks, big data logs, anything you can think of. It really is a general purpose storage system that has a really low cost and infinite scale. Now, if we think about Azure Data Lake Store, it really is built on top of a system like that. And what it does is it allows you to use it without any…

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