Increasing search capabilities

We have seen how to query our documents and retrieve the information we need. For this approach, we need to understand the DocumentDB SQL language. Microsoft has an online offering that enables full-text search called Azure Search service. This feature enables us to perform full-text searches and it also includes search behaviors similar to search engines. We could also benefit from so called type-ahead query suggestions based on the input of a user. Imagine a search box on our IoT Inc. portal that offers free text searching while the user types and searches for devices that include any of the search terms on the fly. Azure Search runs on Azure; therefore, it is scalable and can easily be upgraded to offer more search and storage capacity.

Azure Search stores all your data inside an index, offering full-text search capabilities on your data.

Setting up Azure Search

Setting up Azure Search is pretty straightforward and can be done by using the REST API it offers...