Summary
In this chapter, we covered the basics of DocumentDB. We saw that we can literally store everything and there is no predefined schema we need to comply with. The Azure portal offers some interesting blades for us to create, configure, and manage DocumentDB resources and offers some quick-starts to help you get started immediately. The internals of DocumentDB were discussed and we got a nice insight of the data model.
We also saw some common use cases that are applicable for DocumentDB. A small section was dedicated to explain the pricing model and how your bill is affected by actions you can do.
Finally, we started to do a bit of coding and wrote a small C# console application that connects to the database and creates a document. We could see in the Azure portal that the document was actually stored, together with some other interesting metadata.
In the next chapter, we will discuss how to manage and monitor your DocumentDB resources.
