In this Azure article, we will discuss the key differences between Azure Storage Queue and Azure Service Bus Queue. Basically, we will do a tabular comparison of the key differences between Azure Storage Queue and Service Bus.
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Azure Storage Queue vs Service Bus
Below is a tabular comparison between the Azure storage queue vs Azure service bus queues.
| Azure Storage Queue | Service Bus |
| Excellent Azure storage Queue service to store more messages. | Part of the broader Azure messaging service that supports Subscribe, queuing, and many more patterns. |
| It is a bit simple and flexible as compared to Azure Service Bus Queue. | Bit complex compared to Azure Storage Queue. |
| No support for ordering here. | It supports the ordering (First-in-First-Out) mechanism. |
| It supports a larger queue size (200 TB) as compared to Azure Service Bus Queue. | Supports less queue size (80 GB) compared to Azure Storage Queue, |
| Here it is less and can support messages size up to 64Kb. | Can support messages up to 1MB in size. |
| Storage queue is more costly as compared to Service Bus. | Service Bus is cheaper than Azure Storage Queue. |
| Here you have to pay $0.07/GB/Month as the storage cost. | You don’t need to pay any additional storage costs. |
| Supports an unlimited number of queues/namespace. | Here it is 10,000 queues/namespace. |
| Doesn’t support batch operation while sending the message or requests. | Service Bus supports the batch operation. |
| No support for Message auto-forwarding. | It supports Message auto-forwarding. |
| 30 Seconds is the default lock duration. | 60 Seconds is the default lock duration. |
| Delivery guarantee is at least once. | Here, the Delivery guarantee is at least once and At-Most-Once. |
| The message live time is 7 days max. | No limit. |
| It supports transaction log (Server-side) | No support |
| Azure Storage Queue supports Purge queue. | The Purge queue is not supported here. |
| No support for Message groups. | Service Bus supports Message groups. |
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Wrapping Up
Well, We discussed the key differences between Azure Storage Queue vs Service Bus. Now, seeing the above differences, you can decide you need to use Azure Storage Queue or Azure Service Bus Queue based on your Application requirement. Thanks for reading this article !!!