Chapter 10. Global databases with Cosmos DB
Data. You can’t get by without it. Almost every application that you build and run creates, processes, or retrieves data. Traditionally, this data has been stored in a structured database such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL, or PostgreSQL. These large, structured databases are established and well-known, have ample documentation and tutorials, and can be accessed from most major programming languages.
With great power comes great responsibility, and a lot of infrastructure overhead and management typically goes with these traditional structured databases. That’s not to say you shouldn’t use them—far from it—but when it comes to applications that run on a global scale, it’s no easy feat to also then build ...
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