Chapter 6: Provisioning and Implementing an Azure Cosmos DB Database

After learning about big data, clusters, partitioning, and setting up JSON structures, it is time to put it all together and actually create a Cosmos DB database and a container to actually store the data. We will see how to implement partitioning. We will then cover some basics of working with the database created.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Provisioning a Cosmos DB database
  • Creating a container
  • Uploading documents to a container
  • Importing data using the Azure Cosmos DB Data Migration tool

Technical requirements

You will need the following requirements if you wish to successfully complete this chapter:

  • You will need a connection to the internet ...

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