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Learning Azure Cosmos DB

By : Shahid Shaikh
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Learning Azure Cosmos DB

By: Shahid Shaikh

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft has introduced a new globally distributed database, called Azure Cosmos DB. It is a superset of Microsoft's existing NoSQL Document DB service. Azure Cosmos DB enables you to scale throughput and storage elastically and independently across any number of Azure's geographic regions.</p> <p>This book is a must-have for anyone who wants to get introduced to the world of Cosmos DB. This book will focus on building globally-distributed applications without the hassle of complex, multiple datacenter configurations. This book will shed light on how Cosmos DB offers multimodal NoSQL database capabilities in the cloud at a scale that is one product with different database engines, such as key-value, document, graph, and wide column store. We will cover detailed practical examples on how to create a CRUD application using Cosmos DB with a frontend framework of your choice. This book will empower developers to choose their favorite database engines to perform integration, along with other systems that utilize the most popular languages, such as Node.js. This book will take you through the tips and trick, of Cosmos DB deployment, management, and the security offered by Azure Cosmos DB in order to detect, prevent, and respond to database breaches.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will not only be aware of the best capabilities of relational and non-relational databases, but you will also be able to build scalable, globally distributed,<br />and highly responsive applications.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Microsoft Azure Cloud features


One of the famous and simplest quotes about Azure goes as follows:

Windows Azure can be anything you want it to be

Microsoft Azure Cloud provides a wide range of different services. Windows Azure lets you build, deploy, and manage solutions for almost any purpose you can imagine.

Windows Azure is a world of unlimited possibilities. Irrespective of whether you're a large enterprise spanning several continents that has to run server workloads or a small business that needs a website with a global presence, Windows Azure provides a platform for building applications that can leverage the cloud to meet the needs of your business.

Microsoft Azure provides the following key features:

  • Open: Azure provides vast collections of software development kits (SDKs) and tools for various languages in order to build scalable cloud-based applications.
  • Flexible: Whether you are running a small business or a huge, high-end processing system, Windows Azure provides  various services and scalability to help you with all the stages of your business.
  • Microsoft-managed: Microsoft has data centers across three continents—the United States, Europe, and Asia. Microsoft itself manages these data centers instead of hiring third-party people to run these, which most other providers do.
  • Compatible: You can integrate your existing cloud premise with Azure easily using either support teams or tools.
  • CDN: Azure providescontent delivery network (CDN) that consists of a geographically distributed system of servers that enables Windows Azure to deliver high-bandwidth content for performance-sensitive customers by caching data, images, pictures, and video from Windows Azure compute instances.
  • Distributed database: Azure cloud provides easy-to-manage distributed databases such as SQL Server and Cosmos DB to help developers scale and build global range applications.

You can refer to this diagram for all of the components Azure Cloud offers:

Let's dive more into what Azure can do as a serial peripheral interface (SPI).