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Asked: 2026-05-29T08:18:35+00:00

I have a RESTful service running on azure. Currently, it has zero persistence. (It

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I have a RESTful service running on azure. Currently, it has zero persistence. (It is just a REST gateway to another api.) I run it in a single, minimal Azure instance, and expect this will handle all the load this will ever get.

I now need to add some very lightweight persistence to it. A simple table, of 40-200 rows, eight data columns. The data is very static.

Doing the whole SQL Azure thing seems big overkill for my needs.

My thoughts have been to use:

  1. An XML file, and load it into memory, as the db. XML file is
    deployed with code.
  2. Some better way to deploy XML, so it can be
    rolled out/updated easier
  3. SQL Compact (can I do this on Azure?)
  4. ___ ?

What is the right path here?

Thank you!

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  1. Editorial Team

    SQL Server Compact would need to store its data somewhere in persistent manner, so you would need to sync it regularly to a persistent storage and that’s a lot of extra work and I have no idea how to do that reliably, so it’s likely not a very good idea.

    For your simple table the Azure Table Storage might be just enough. If that’s not enough then SQL Azure is the next choice.

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