Chapter 9. Data Services in the Cloud – NoSQL in Microsoft Azure

In Chapter 7, Data Services in the Cloud – an Overview of ADO.NET and Entity Framework, we got an overview of Entity Framework and Microsoft Azure SQL Azure databases as a data source for the Web API application. In Chapter 8, Data Services in the Cloud – Microsoft Azure Storage, we discussed Microsoft Azure Storage service that contains Tables, Blobs, and Queues that solve different tasks of storing the data within the reliable scalable cloud storage system, and use storage service for storing our data. In this chapter, we will discuss NoSQL and one of the options that is supported in Microsoft Azure—DocumentDB.

NoSQL technologies are extremely important in the modern world, as they are created to address problems such as effective work across many servers and workloads such as JSON documents that are not typical for relational systems. NoSQL encompasses many storage technologies that...