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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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The key-value model/Table API

The key-value model is a pretty simple model. In fact, you've probably used a similar construction countless times. It's really just a dictionary (or map, as it's called in some languages). They have a key and an associated value. In traditional key-value stores, data can only be queried with a key, but it has super performance and is highly scalable. The primary keys when using the Table API are the PartitionKey and a RowKey; they have to be unique. 

The Table API can query on other properties as well and all are automatically indexed as secondary indexes. Next to having a super-fast lookup on all your properties, Cosmos DB guarantees less than 10 milliseconds of latency for reads and less than 15 milliseconds ...

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