Azure table storage and caching

Question

Is it worth caching data from Azure Table storage with the Azure Caching Preview? Or is the table storage fast enough in large scale applications?

Thanks

Answer 1

The short answer is it depends. In the application I am currently working on there is some information that we use caching for to handle both the latency of retrieving data from Table Storage and to accommodate the desired number of transactions per second.

We started out serving the information from Table Storage and moved to caching only when our performance requirements dictated it. I'd recommend a similar approach: make it work, then make it fast.