Interesting that it has a SQL backend, I wonder what they are using as an ORM to...

paulbatum · on Aug 28, 2012

We use node-sqlserver (https://github.com/WindowsAzure/node-sqlserver).

We also give scripts full access to the node-sqlserver driver, so they can run their own arbitrary SQL as necessary.

wluu · on Aug 28, 2012

You'd probably assume if any, they'd be using the Entity Framework.

Anyway, looking at the comments in Scott Guthrie's blogpost (http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2012/08/28/announcing...) he also mentioned that they "will also support unstructured storage in the future so if you don't need rich querying you can use that too."

Also, from the comments he mentions they'll be publishing documentation for the REST API soon'ish (as well as "pre-built REST helper methods for Win8/iOS/Android/others").

vyrotek · on Aug 29, 2012

We will also support unstructured storage in the future so if you don't need rich querying you can use that too.

I got excited for a moment. I've been using Azure for a few years now and I was thinking that this could have been a hint of them offering something more similar to MongoDB in the future. But, then it hit me that he's probably only talking about the Table Storage (Now called Table Service?) which I will never touch again.

facorreia · on Aug 29, 2012

Table Storage could be much more useful if it had indexes. A managed, reliable MongoDB hosted service would be very interesting.

With that said, SQL Database (formerly known as SQL Azure), specially with the Federations feature, is an interesting option for LOB applications.