Azure Cosmos DB : A brief Note for Developers
summary
Covers which Cosmos APIs to pick (Core/SQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Table, Gremlin) and how account pieces map to databases, containers, documents and attachments; explains that performance and billing tie to RU/s controls both performance and cost, throughput can be autoscale or manual throughput; gives partition guidance including that a logical partition tops out at ~10 GB and documents larger than 2 MB become attachments to blob storage; shows server-side JavaScript objects—stored procedures, triggers and UDFs—and mentions migration helpers like the Data Migration Tool and Spark connectors.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:20What is SQL Database
- 3:53Key Value Database
- 5:29Document Database
- 9:25Column Database
- 10:08Graph Database
- 11:07Cosmos DB API
- 14:00Create Cosmos DB Account
- 17:10throughput concept
- 23:18Document and Collections
- 26:43Storage
- 32:18Partition Key
- 35:20Azure Portal
- 44:36Query
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