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20. Cosmos DB

Rahul Sahay1  
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Bangalore, India
 

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed database service with turnkey global distribution and transparent multimaster replication. In this chapter, you will explore Azure Cosmos DB in detail.

  • Azure Cosmos DB can handle millions of transactions per second.

  • Azure Cosmos DB is specifically designed for high performance. Therefore, if your app is using NoSQL and it has a requirement for high-performance and volume, then you should choose Cosmos DB.

NoSQL databases are referred to as nonrelational, NoSQL DBs, or non-SQL to highlight the fact that they can handle huge volumes of rapidly ...

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