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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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Understanding Cosmos DB

Besides SQL databases, Azure has some Not Only SQL (NoSQL) options, with Cosmos DB being Microsoft's very own solution. Cosmos DB is only available in the cloud and no on-premises version currently exists. Like Azure SQL, Cosmos DB is a PaaS solution. The cool thing about Cosmos DB is that it has APIs for all the major NoSQL models out there: the key-value model, the document model, the graph model, and the wide column model.

The Cosmos DB document API matches the popular MongoDB database API and the wide column API matches the Apache Cassandra database API, meaning that you can easily move those databases to Cosmos DB and your software will continue to work. Additionally, Cosmos DB has a SQL API. This doesn't mean ...

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