Azure Cosmos DB documentation

About Azure Cosmos DB

Overview

• What is Azure Cosmos DB?

Concept

• Wire protocol compatibility with MongoDB
• Wire protocol compatibility with Apache Cassandra
• Wire protocol compatibility with Tinkerpop’s Gremlin

Quickstart

• Create an Azure Cosmos account

Global distribution

Concept

• Overview
• Consistency levels
• Choose the right consistency level
• Consistency levels and APIs
• Consistency, availability, and performance tradeoffs
• High availability
• Conflict types and resolution policies
• Global data distribution under the hood
• Regional presence

How-To Guide

• Configure multi-master
• Configure consistency levels
• Implement custom synchronization
• Configure conflict resolution policies

Data partitioning and best practices

Concept

• Overview
• Partitioning and horizontal scaling
• Synthetic partition key
• Data modeling

How-To Guide

• Create container with large partition key
• Migrate to a partitioned container

Create and manage Cosmos DB resources

Concept

• What is an Azure Cosmos account?
• Azure Cosmos databases, containers, and items
• How is data indexed in Cosmos DB
• Indexing policies, include and exclude properties
• Time to live
• Unique key constraints

How-To Guide

• Create a database
• Create a container
• Query data from a container
• Configure time to live for containers and items
• Configure indexing policies
• Define unique keys
• Use emulator for local development
• Manage using Azure PowerShell
• Manage using Azure CLI
• Manage using Resource Manager(ARM) templates

Provisioned Throughput

Concept

• Request Units
• Database and container level throughput

How-To Guide

• Estimate the required throughput
• Provision throughput on a database
• Provision throughput on a container
• Get the request unit charges
• Scale using Azure Functions timer

Build an app with SQL API

Quickstart

• .NET Console app
• Java app
• Node.js app
• Python app
• Xamarin app

Tutorial

• .NET web app
• Java app with Async SDK
• Java app sample with Change Feed
• Query data with SQL queries

How-To Guide

• Visualize data with Power BI
• Define stored procedures, triggers, UDFs
• Execute stored procedures, triggers, UDFs

Reference

• .NET
• Java
• JavaScript
• REST

Learn

• Create and manage SQL API data

Build an app with MongoDB API

Quickstart

• .NET app
• Java app
• Node.js app
• Python app

Tutorial

• Query data with MongoDB shell

How-To Guide

• Manage data indexing
• Set time to live
• Connect with Robo 3T

Build an app with Gremlin API

Quickstart

• Use Gremlin Console
• .NET app
• Java app
• Node.js app
• Python app
• PHP app

How-To Guide

• Graph data modeling
• Best practices for graph data partitioning
• Optimize Gremlin queries

Learn

• Store and access graph data

Build an app with Cassandra API

Quickstart

• .NET
• .NET Core
• Java v3
• Java v4
• Node.js
• Python

How-To Guide

• Connect to Cassandra API from Spark

Optimize performance & cost

Concept

• Throughput cost
• Query cost
• Storage cost
• Reads and writes cost
• Multi-region cost
• Query performance

How-To Guide

• Optimize with data modeling

Migrate your data to Cosmos DB

Tutorial

• Data migration tool – SQL API
• CQL shell, Spark – Cassandra API
• Azure Database Migration Service – MongoDB API
• AzCopy, Data migration tool – Table API

How-To Guide

• Oracle DB to Cosmos DB SQL API using Striim
• Oracle DB to Cosmos DB Cassandra API using Striim
• Oracle DB to Cosmos DB Cassandra API using Blitzz
• Apache Cassandra to Cosmos DB using Blitzz
• Migrate 100’s TBs of data

Built-in analytics with Apache Spark

Concept

• Analytics use cases
• Lambda architecture

How-To Guide

• Use Cosmos DB to Spark connector
• Use Cosmos DB with Apache Kafka