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id: azure-cosmosdb-table
version: "1.0.6"
license: Apache License 2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
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# azure-cosmosdb-table — Microsoft Azure CosmosDB Table Client Library for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 2.8M/mo

## What it is and what it does

This is a Python client library for Microsoft Azure CosmosDB Table service, enabling CRUD operations on tables and entities, batch operations, and advanced table queries. It wraps HTTP calls to Azure's table storage backend using dependencies like requests, cryptography, and azure-common for authentication and communication.

The package is in Beta status and has been abandoned since mid-2022, with its last release in October 2019. It targets Python 2.7 and 3.3–3.6. While it remains available on PyPI and carries no known security vulnerabilities, its lack of maintenance means it will not receive updates for Azure API changes, security patches, or compatibility fixes for newer Python versions.

Use it for:

- Migrate or maintain legacy Python applications that depend on azure-cosmosdb-table without rewriting to a newer Azure SDK.
- Prototype or develop against Azure CosmosDB Tables in environments locked to Python 2.7 or early Python 3 versions.
- Perform batch inserts, updates, or deletes of entities in Azure Table Storage from a Python script.
- Query and retrieve entities from existing CosmosDB Table partitions using the legacy SDK interface.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Client library for reading, writing, and managing tables and entities in Microsoft Azure CosmosDB Table service from Python applications.

No, unless you are maintaining existing code that already depends on it. The package is abandoned, last updated in 2019, and Microsoft has moved to newer Azure SDKs. For new projects, use the current azure-data-tables package instead. If you must use this package, do so only in isolated, non-production environments or as a temporary measure during migration.

## Install

pip install azure-cosmosdb-table
uv add azure-cosmosdb-table
poetry add azure-cosmosdb-table

## Installing azure-cosmosdb-table

Before you install: Low install friction with standard dependencies, but the package is abandoned as of 2022-07-28 with no maintenance since the 2019-10-25 release. The repository is archived and no longer actively developed.

License in practice: Licensed under Apache License 2.0 (permissive), allowing commercial and private use with minimal restrictions, though you assume responsibility for any issues in this unmaintained codebase.

Quickstart:

pip install azure-cosmosdb-table

from azure.cosmosdb.table.tableservice import TableService

table_service = TableService(account_name='myaccount', account_key='mykey')
table_service.create_table('mytable')

Requires an active Microsoft Azure account with CosmosDB Table service credentials (account name and key).

Verify before relying:

- Whether this package works with modern Python versions beyond 3.6, given it is unmaintained and last tested on 3.6.
- Current compatibility with the latest Azure CosmosDB Table API, given the 2019 release date and subsequent service changes.
- Whether Microsoft recommends a replacement SDK for new projects using CosmosDB Tables.

## Package facts

- License: Apache License 2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 2.8M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

azure cosmosdb table client, azure table storage python, cosmosdb table sdk, azure table operations, nosql table database python, azure entity crud, batch table operations, abandoned, azure-legacy, nosql-table-storage

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