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Overview of Cosmos DB

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Overview of Cosmos DB

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- [Instructor] If we look at other options in Azure, things like NoSQL or Not Only SQL services, like Cosmos Database, Azure Storage, Redis Cache, we can see that these are more of a partition data management system that includes a number of different types of data that we can store. It's schema-less, it's very scalable, there's a lot of great things about this. I want to talk about Cosmos. Cosmos Database is a multi-model and multi-API offering and what that means is that you can use a model that matches out to what you're used to using. If you're using Cassandra or you're using Mongo, the Cosmos Database exposes its operations to those APIs directly and it supports the wire protocol for each of those. It also has a Azure Table service API as well a SQL which allows us to do more of a document kind of a database. One thing about Cosmos is that it allows us to have consistency across multiple locations. And there's…

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