How to use the information you know about your database clusters to estimate the provisioned throughput request units you'll need when migrating NoSQL data to Azure Cosmos DB and avoid over-provisioning or overpaying
What's new in docs? Explore the technical documentation that's been recently published and updated for Azure Cosmos DB.
Develop your next app database locally using the Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator on Docker (preview) with Visual Studio Code. This post includes a sample with GitHub repository and a step-by-step video.
The second of a two-part series about creating your first Azure Cosmos DB implementation. Learn how to improve performance by optimizing queries and monitoring your database account.
Understand how to create your first Azure Cosmos DB implementation with this two-part series. From when and why to choose a NoSQL database to creating containers and selecting an API, follow this end-to-end example to walk through the steps you'll take to get started.
Azure Cosmos DB is designed for high throughput and low latency workloads, with the ability to serve millions of requests per second and billions of requests a day. In addition to seeking a scalable database that can serve massive volumes of traffic, users also look for granular server-side metrics for monitoring the health and performance of their...
Explore the architecture of the source and sink Apache Kafka Connectors for Azure Cosmos DB along with their popular areas of usage.
Hierarchical partition keys are now available in private preview for the Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API. With hierarchical partition keys, also known as sub-partitioning, you can now natively partition your container with up to three levels of partition keys. This enables more optimal partitioning strategies for multi-tenant scenarios or workloads ...
Always encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB provides encryption support on the client-side to protect sensitive data by encrypting data such as credit card numbers or national identification numbers, before it gets transferred over the wire to be stored in Azure Cosmos DB. Always encrypted allows clients to protect JSON property values which are deemed se...
Learn how to leverage Azure Cosmos DB as ASP.NET Session State provider and distributed cache by using the existing caching extension on your applications
