[Tables] Discussion - Azure Tables SDK Beta.1

The intent of this issue is to solicit feedback from the community in advance of the GA of the new Azure Tables library @azure/data-tables which replaces the Azure Tables support in the older azure-storage-node (which will follow several Beta releases).

_As a reference, the JavaScript Azure SDK guidelines can be found here: https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk/typescript_introduction.html#_

@azure/data-tables beta.1

We are happy to announce that we have released the first Beta of the new Azure Tables SDK. It conforms to our new guidelines on writing JS SDKs for Azure services which ensure it will remain idiomatic, consistent, and diagnosable.

The new package can be installed with npm install @azure/data-tables

Clients The new Azure Tables SDK provides 2 clients:

• TableServiceClient - Which exposes operations at a service level such as creating and deleting tables, getting and setting access policies, and getting service statistics

• TableClient - Which exposes operations at an entity level such as create, delete, update, upsert, get and list entities.

For more samples on how to use each client please take a look at our samples

We have created a few discussion issues to hear feedback about the key design decisions we have made, we’d appreciate your input as it would help us build a great SDK

• #11210 [Discussion] Proposal to provide automatic serialization in @azure/data-tables
• #11209 [Discussion] Proposal to provide more idiomatic entities in @azure/data-tables

Also please report any problems you find in a new GitHub issue.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

[joheredi]

@freakyfriday thanks for bringing this up. Unfortunately, neither CosmosDB Tables Rest API nor Storage Tables support OrderBy. The new Tables SDKs are based on the REST APIs, so we can’t support OrderBy at this point. I have filed a Feature Request (#11301) for this with some additional information. Please subscribe to the issue to get updates

Hi @mtrcn, Azure Storage and CosmosDB offer different levels of redundancy, you can find more information in the following sites:

• Azure Storage redundancy
• High availability with Azure Cosmos DB

[joheredi]

Hi Everyone! We are happy to announce that the new stable version (12.0.0) of @azure/datat-tables has been released. You can install it with npm install @azure/data-tables

For more details please see the README.

If you have any questions or feedback, please log an issue here