Shahid Shaikh - Learning Azure Cosmos DB

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Shahid Shaikh is an engineer, published author, and a blogger. He has written tons of tutorials on Node.js and various databases on his blog. He is a believer in open source and almost all his source code is on GitHub. He has also developed and launched a SaaS product called Spark to handle content sharing automation. Currently, he is building a next-generation email marketing tool called Hashmailer.

I would like to acknowledge my parents for supporting me throughout the book-writing phase. I had to work on weekends and cancel lots of plans to deliver the chapters on time, and my family and friends canceled various things because of me and supported me while I was writing the book, which I am very thankful for.

Kasam Ahmed Shaikh is a seasoned professional with a 'could be' attitude with 10 years of determined industry experience with one of the leading IT companies in Mumbai, India. He is a certified Azure architect, recognized as C# Corner MVP. He is also a speaker, and has written a book on Azure cognitive services. He is also the founder of DearAzure.net and Shaikh Academy.

Very first, I would like to thank Almighty Allah, my family, and in particular, my better half for motivating me throughout the process. I am very thankful to Packt Publishing for believing and considering me for this opportunity.

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Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's managed database solution for individuals and enterprise with the industry standard service-level agreement. Azure Cosmos DB provides multi-model database support that can scale across more than 30 regions across the world. Azure Cosmos DB provides a turn key distribution that enables the database admins to scale and replicate their database with a few clicks.

This book covers the major concepts and features of Azure Cosmos DB. This book also covers the development of web applications using Cosmos DB and their integration using the software development kit provided by Azure Cosmos DB.

This book is intended for anyone who wants to get well versed with Microsoft's new NoSQL database called Azure Cosmos DB. You should have prior experience of dealing with any SQL or NoSQL databases.

, Introducing Microsoft Azure Cloud and Cosmos DB , aims to provide an introduction to the Microsoft Azure platform. The reader will get to know the various interfaces and modules provided by the Microsoft Azure cloud. Another part of this chapter provides an introduction to Cosmos DB, which is the main topic of the book.

, Cosmos DB Global Turnkey Distribution , covers one of the key features of Cosmos DB, which is its global turn key distribution system. You can replicate your database more than 30 regions scattered across the globe using a very simple interface.

, Cosmos DB Multi-model Databases , provides the four (five after publishing state of this book) database models that you can pick from. This chapter covers these database models in detail.

, Querying Cosmos DB , covers the different types of queries required for multi-model databases. This chapter segregates these queries in the CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) way to explain it better.

, Integrating Cosmos DB with Node.js , covers all integration with one of the popular backend runtime engines, Node.js. We have covered how to connect to the database models of Cosmos DB with Node.js.