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4 Design Patterns to Deal with Large Item Sizes in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

September 5, 2023 Sep 5, 2023 09/5/23

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...