I am storing text files in Azure Blob Storage. The files will be on the order of 1MB, but I could theoretically reduce that size by perhaps 30% at the cost of significantly increasing my application logic complexity.
I'm leaning toward just using the simpler but larger files. However, I wanted to know what factor blob size would have on retrieval time. Is it negligible or could there be a significant difference? I'm retrieving from a web server directly within the same datacenter as the blobs.
Also, is any compression automatically applied to blobs being sent within the datacenter? (As text files with lots of repeated content, they would compress very well.)
Thanks for any pointers!
It depends on your E2E usage scenario but for simply uploading text files to Azure Blob Storage I would suggest going with the simpler but larger ~1MB files as the difference after reducing the size will probably be negligible.
You can also take a look at the Azure Storage Scalability and Performance Targets - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-scalability-targets/