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Feb 24, 2025
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New Azure Cosmos DB Design Patterns Video Series – Learn, Implement, and Contribute!

Jay Gordon
Jay Gordon

We’re excited to introduce the Azure Cosmos DB Design Patterns video series—your go-to resource for learning how to design scalable, efficient, and cost-effective applications with Azure Cosmos DB. Built on real-world use cases, each episode explores a proven design pattern, walking through how it works, when to use it, and how to implement it usi...

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQLData Modeling
Jun 10, 2024
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Mastering Azure Cosmos DB: A Comprehensive Guide from Prototype to Production

Sandeep S. Nair Saranya Sriram
Sandeep,
Saranya

Over the past couple of years, we have collaborated with numerous customers to tackle performance, scaling, and cost issues that arise when transitioning their Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL API based applications to production. In many cases, these challenges stem from a lack of understanding of key Azure Cosmos DB concepts. To address this, We tea...

Data ModelingAzure Cosmos DB for NoSQLTips and Tricks
Mar 27, 2024
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Optimizing database performance: Change partition keys of a container in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL API (preview)

Richa Gaur
Richa Gaur

Partitioning is a key concept in Azure Cosmos DB, a fully managed, globally distributed, multi-model database service that offers unlimited scalability and low latency. By distributing data across multiple physical partitions based on the partition key(s), Azure Cosmos DB optimizes data access and distribution, profoundly impacting database perform...

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQLTips and TricksMigration
Feb 22, 2024
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MongoDB to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL Migration – Learnings from Java SDK V4 Micro-Optimizations

Subhasish Ghosh Theo van Kraay
Subhasish,
Theo

The authors wish to thank Govind Kanshi (Principal PM Manager), Abinav Rameesh (Principal PM Manager), Kushagra Thapar (Principal Engineering Manager), Annie Liang (Sr. Software Engineer) and Faiz Chachiya (Sr. Cloud Solution Architect, CSU) for their valuable insights, and contributions during the Proof-of-Concept (PoC). Introduction  Azure Cosm...

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQLTips and TricksJava SDK
Jan 8, 2024
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Best Practices for Re-modeling Graph database to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

Subhasish Ghosh Faiz Chachiya Sandeep S. Nair
Subhasish,
Faiz,
Sandeep

Introduction Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's premier fully managed NoSQL database for modern app development. It is ideal for solutions including artificial intelligence, digital commerce, Internet of Things, booking management and other types of use cases. It offers single-digit millisecond response times, automatic and instant scalability along w...

Tips and TricksMigrationData Architecture
Sep 7, 2023
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Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 1: Attribute array

Jay Gordon
Jay Gordon

Over the years, customers have asked us for help in designing applications around specific scenarios they were trying to achieve. In some cases, these centered around implementing certain patterns using a JSON-based NoSQL database. Some of these patterns are very common in the NoSQL world, but not well understood by those new to NoSQL databases...

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQLTips and TricksData Architecture
Sep 5, 2023
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4 Design Patterns to Deal with Large Item Sizes in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

Subhasish Ghosh
Subhasish Ghosh

Introduction  A recommended best practice in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL is to avoid overly large item sizes. An Azure Cosmos DB item can represent either a document in a container, a row in a table, or a node or edge in a graph, depending on which API you use. Though the maximum size of an item allowed in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL is 2 MB, it is st...

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQLTips and TricksData Architecture
Sep 20, 2022
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Antipatterns on Azure Cosmos DB

Jay Gordon
Jay Gordon

This post was authored by Microsoft MVP and Azure Cosmos DB community champion Blaize Stewart.  You can reach Blaize (@theonemule) on Twitter. Software developers of all kinds love patterns. They give us reusable ideas that can be applied in many different contexts. We also have antipatterns: bad practices and habits that crop up enough to beco...

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