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What is Cosmos DB? - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Azure Essential Training for Developers
What is Cosmos DB?
- Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed database service. It was created to accommodate the high responsiveness and always on nature of most modern applications that live in the cloud. Cosmos DB is considered a NoSQL database and primarily works with four data models. This includes a document store, where data is schema-less and most likely stored as json documents, a graph oriented model, where data is represented as graph structures like nodes and edges, a key value store, which is the simplest form of a database management system and only stores pairs of keys and values, and wide column stores, which allow data with vast numbers of dynamic columns to be stored. Because of Cosmos DB's focus on high availability, geographic distribution, and speed, it comes with some pretty neat advantages. To start, Cosmos DB is classified as a foundational service within Azure, which means it's available in every Azure…
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