Exploring Azure NoSQL databases
In Azure, there are a few options for deploying NoSQL databases, from deploying an open source database such as MongoDB, Cassandra, or Neo4j running in a virtual machine IaaS, through HBase databases in the Azure HDInsight service, to Azure Cosmos DB.
Azure Cosmos DB is the main Azure offering to implement a NoSQL database. It’s the NoSQL database most asked about in the questions of the DP-900 test and is the most used in modern projects, so let’s explore it next.
Exploring Azure Cosmos DB
In this section, we will learn about the concepts of Azure Cosmos DB, and in Chapter 10, Provisioning and Configuring Non-Relational Data Services in Azure, we will explore it further by performing its provisioning and configuration.
Azure Cosmos DB is a multimodal, globally distributed NoSQL database system on Azure, which means that depending on its setting, it may have different operating characteristics and infrastructure architecture...
