TTL capability within Azure Cosmos DB is a live saver, as it would take necessary steps to purge redudent data based on the configurations you may. Let us think in terms of an Industrial IoT scenario, devices can produce vast amounts of telemetry information, logs and user session information that is only useful until we… Continue reading
Category: CosmosDB
Azure Cosmos DB–Multi Master
During the Ignite 2018, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Multi-Master feature being introduced to Azure Cosmos DB to provide more control into data redundancy and elastic scalability for your data from different regions with multiple writes and read instances. What is Multi-Master essentially? Multi-master is a capability that provided as part of Cosmos… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB–Reserved Capacity
Azure Cosmos DB is a planet scale global document database which have been available for Azure Customers based on pay-as-you-go. Reserved Capacity is a new long term pre-paid billing commitment customers can get a discounted pricing. Azure Cosmos DB reserved capacity helps you save money by pre-paying for Azure Cosmos DB resources for a period… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB – 429 Too Many Requests
Recently while I was doing Performance Testing in one of the APIs interacting with Cosmos DB, I encountered a problem as Azure Cosmos DB API’s started returning Http Code 429. Http Status Code 429 indicates that too many request been received or request rate is very large. This error would happen when we have concurrent… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB–Setting Up New Database using Azure CLI–Sample
Purpose of this article is to help you with few steps of commands to provision a new Azure Cosmos DB database instance through Azure CLI or Azure Cloud Shell. Here is the snippet: <# This Bash script should help you create a Azure Cosmos DB instance using Azure CLI with bare minimal configuration #> export… Continue reading
70-777 – Azure Cosmos DB Certification Exam (BETA)
“70-777: Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions” is the new Microsoft certification in the town for any Developer or Architect who leverages Azure Cosmos DB. If you understand how Cosmos DB database can be configured and consumed using platform agnostic Cosmos DB API, this certification will help you prove your expertise. To read more about… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB – Change feed support(PREVIEW)–available
Today Microsoft announced the preview of Change feed Support for Azure Cosmos DB, which allows you to build scalable solutions. By default change feed will be enabled in all the accounts. Change feed provides an output of sorted list of documents that has been changed in the order in which they are modified by client… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB – Consistency Levels
CosmosDB is a planet scale multi model, multi-region NoSQL database service provided as part of Azure Platform. Azure Cosmos DB is designed to provide global distribution for every data model you choose while creating Cosmos DB. It is promised to provide low latency and various well-defined consistency models to ensure data redundancy and high availability.… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB – Programatically Connect to a preferred location using the SQL API
Cosmos Db is a multi-region scallable, globally-distributed database solution as part of Microsoft Azure Platform. With a button click, Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure’s geographic regions. It offers throughput, latency, availability, and consistency guarantees with comprehensive service level agreements (SLAs), that no… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB – Connection Policy – Setting Connection Mode and Connection Protocol
Recently I have been trying multiple ways to optimize CosmosDb SQL.NET SDK integration calls from my web application that sits within a VNET. After carefully analyzing different options available within Cosmos Db SQL API’s have realized there are different aspects we could optimize in achieving minimal turn around time. In this article I am going… Continue reading