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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

Turnkey distribution


Before you say, "Shahid, we have learned this in previous chapters, why do it again now?", I want to hold you up there. I know we did cover this topic in our previous chapters, but I would like to revisit it, because it's really important for your application deployment plan.

If you are a DevOps, you can thank me later (they know what I mean).

Cosmos DB provides a competitive feature, which none of the other managed database providers, such as Amazon, Rackspace, and so on, offer, at least at the time of writing. Hence, it becomes a very important selling point of Cosmos DB.

Let's revisit it again and see how it can help your deployment plan. So, you can replicate your data across more than 30 regions on the planet with just a few clicks of a button (not really one click, but very simple). That's what turnkey global distribution means.

So, a possible use case in the deployment plan could be as follows. Suppose you have an SaaS-based application and you have a huge customer...