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Working with Cosmos DB

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Working with Cosmos DB

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- [Instructor] Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's flagship NoSQL database. When designing solutions that use Cosmos DB, you need to consider a number of different options. The first, and you'll see it when you start creating your first account, is which API to use? So we can see when we start to create one, we get these different options and they're all about where you are going to interact with the database programmatically. You also define how Cosmos DB structures itself underneath and each one supports different types of scenarios. So the Core SQL, which is often the recommended, is the best for native APIs and it uses a very similar language to the SQL query language. So if you're normally used to work writing applications using the SQL database, that's definitely the one to go for. Then there's the Cosmos DB API for MongoDB. So this is great if you are transitioning from an existing MongoDB database to Cosmos DB. By…

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