How is Azure Storage Tables implemented?

Question

I'm the type of developer that likes to understand the whole stack and viewing Azure Storage Tables as a black box makes me uncomfortable.

RDBMS is an entire field of study in Computer Science. The components necessary to support ACID operations, query optimizations down to the details of B-trees to create indexes is essentially a well documented, solved problem.

Apache HBase and MongoDB are open source and Google has published multiple papers on BigTable, but I can't find anything on Microsoft's Azure Storage Tables, other than usage / developer documentation. Has Microsoft published any details on the actual implementation (algorithms, data structures and infrastructure) behind Azure Storage Tables?

Answer 1

The Azure Storage team presented a paper at SOSP11 describing the inner workings of the Azure Storage Service (including the Table Services).