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title: "Discussion on \"We run a whole auth system on stores that only know get and put\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"We run a whole auth system on stores that only know get and put\". Azure Table Storage gives you a partition key, a row key, and almost nothing else. No joins, no secondary indexes worth the name, no increment. We run a multi-tenant auth system on it anyway. The patterns that make it work, and what you give up versus SQL."
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# [We run a whole auth system on stores that only know get and put](https://authagonal.hashnode.dev/we-run-a-whole-auth-system-on-stores-that-only-know-get-and-put?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Azure Table Storage gives you a partition key, a row key, and almost nothing else. No joins, no secondary indexes worth the name, no increment. We run a multi-tenant auth system on it anyway. The patterns that make it work, and what you give up versus SQL.

Jul 10 · 6 min read · authagonal.hashnode.dev  
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