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The database space has been greatly dominated by relational database
management systems (or RDBMSs) such as Microsoft® SQL Server or
Oracle. This dominance was made possible in part by the wide range of
solutions that can be built on top of those systems but also because of
the powerful products that are available. There is, however, a different
approach to data management, commonly known as NoSQL. The term
NoSQL stands for “non SQL” or “not only SQL” since SQL (Structured
Query Language) is almost exclusively tied to relational systems. NoSQL
databases have existed since the 1960s but it wasn’t until the early 2000s
that they gained a lot of popularity with companies like Facebook and
Amazon implementing them and products such as MongoDB, Cassandra,
and Redis becoming the choices for many developers.
In this chapter, I will introduce Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s
NoSQL database, which is available in Microsoft Azure as a globally
distributed, multi-node database service. We will examine what it is and
its main features, but most importantly, at the end of the chapter, you
will have a complete development environment that you can use for your
applications. |
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