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Guide to NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB

By : Gaston C. Hillar, Daron Yöndem
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Guide to NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB

By: Gaston C. Hillar, Daron Yöndem

Overview of this book

Cosmos DB is a NoSQL database service included in Azure that is continuously adding new features and has quickly become one of the most innovative services found in Azure, targeting mission-critical applications at a global scale. This book starts off by showing you the main features of Cosmos DB, their supported NoSQL data models and the foundations of its scalable and distributed architecture. You will learn to work with the latest available tools that simplify your tasks with Cosmos DB and reduce development costs, such as the Data Explorer in the Azure portal, Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, and the Cosmos DB Emulator. Next, move on to working with databases and document collections. We will use the tools to run schema agnostic queries against collections with the Cosmos DB SQL dialect and understand their results. Then, we will create a first version of an application that uses the latest .NET Core SDK to interact with Cosmos DB. Next, we will create a second version of the application that will take advantage of important features that the combination of C# and the .NET Core SDK provides, such as POCOs and LINQ queries. By the end of the book, you will be able to build an application that works with a Cosmos DB NoSQL document database with C#, the .NET Core SDK, LINQ, and JSON.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Dynamically adjusting throughput for a collection with the Azure portal


Now we will use the Azure portal to check the settings we used to create the Competitions1 document collection with the C# code we wrote in Chapter 4, Building an Application with C#, Cosmos DB, a NoSQL Document Database, and the SQL API.

In the Azure portal, make sure you are in the page for the Cosmos DB account in the portal. Click on the Data Explorer option, click on the database name you used in the configuration for the examples in Chapter 4, Building an Application with C#, Cosmos DB, a NoSQL Document Database, and the SQL API, and Chapter 5, Working with POCOs, LINQ, and a NoSQL Document Database, (Competition) to expand the collections for the database and click on the collection name you used for the examples (Competitions1). Click on Scale & Settings and the portal will display a new tab that allows us to check the existing provisioned throughput for the collection in the Scale section. The following screenshot...