What is difference between database and data storage?

Are storage and database same?

So basically database means how you store your file. So in Azure cloud storage and databases are 2 different things. Azure Databases include SQL Db, Maria Db, MySQL Db and Cosmos Db. However, remember databases store their db files into the storage system only.

Is a database a data store?

Databases are the most durable and reliable type of data store. Anything that you need to store permanently should go in a database. Relational databases are typically the most mature databases: they have withstood the test of time and continue to be an industry standard tool for the reliable storage of important data.

How is data storage in database?

Relational databases store data in tables. Think of a table as a spreadsheet. The database stores data for each table in a row, just like in a spreadsheet. There are lots of different column types, but a column type is just a fancy way of defining the format of a column.

What is the difference between cloud storage and database?

Like databases, cloud data warehouses deal with data; the difference is that instead of transactional processing the end-goal with any data warehouse is end-to-end analytics. Cloud data warehouses consolidate data from multiple sources making it accessible for analysis.