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Azure Mobile Services launched: A Cloud Backend For Mobile Apps

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Re: Azure Mobile Services launched: A Cloud Backend For Mobile Apps

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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…

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 ne…

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.

Re: Azure Mobile Services launched: A Cloud Backend For Mobile Apps

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Well this is stiff competition for Parse and the like. However, Parse still has seamless ways to query location data. Not sure if I'll be able to do that with this Azure backend.

I'd be shocked if they can't add that in in If Microsoft continues learn from their mistakes they will be very scary. Scary in a good way for once.
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