Summary

There is a lot more to know about Azure Cosmos DB than we have seen in this chapter. The basis for successful implementation was made in Chapter 5, Designing a NoSQL Database, which was on how to choose your JSON documents and how to choose a partition key.

In this chapter, you learned to configure the options needed to provision a Cosmos DB account. Then you learned how to create a database and a container. You added some data to the containers and queried the test data using SQL.

With this chapter, we end part 1 of this book. Part 1, Operational/OLTP databases, was about databases that are used by line-of-business applications, such as online shops, CRM systems, and financial systems. These systems should be able to handle new data well. New data gets inserted into these types of databases and possibly at a high rate. We need to build these databases with performance and scalability in mind. Of course, we need to consider cost as well. The first step in that is choosing...