© Agus Kurniawan, Wely Lau 2019
A. Kurniawan, W. LauPractical Azure Functionshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5067-9_4

4. Accessing Cosmos DB in Azure Functions

Agus Kurniawan1  and Wely Lau2
(1)
Fakultas Ilmu Komputer, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
(2)
Singapore, Singapore
 

NoSQL databases have been extremely popular in recent years. In this chapter, you will learn how to access Cosmos DB, the primary NoSQL database in Azure Functions.

Introduction to NoSQL Databases and Azure Cosmos DB

The term NoSQL refers to database systems that store data in a wider variety of data models than relational databases such as documents, key-value pairs, or graphs. This is a different concept than the conventional relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

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