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CosmosDB

CosmosDB - Azure Tutorial

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CosmosDB

- [Instructor] Now it's time to dig a little bit deeper in each one Azure solutions for NoSQL data. Let's just start with Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB is the main Microsoft NoSQL database management system, storing data as JSON documents. It works on a Platform as a Service level, so several administrative tasks are managed for you. As we have seen on previous videos, Cosmos DB is multi-model, which means that it supports documents, key-value pairs, graph and column-family data, depending on the API that you choose. It's also very fast, guaranteeing less than 10 milliseconds latency for both reads and writes 99% of the time. That's because the data is spread across partitions on several nodes. These makes Cosmos DB an excellent choice for IoT and telematics, gaming and the highly responsible mobile and web applications on a global scale. As we see in any Microsoft product, security is by design. The data is…

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