Getting Started With Azure Cosmos DB

Introduction

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed database service designed to enable you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of geographical regions with a comprehensive SLA. You can develop the document, key/value, or graph databases with Cosmos DB using a series of popular APIs and programming models. Azure Cosmos DB

Prerequisites
  1. Azure account – If you don’t have an Azure account, don’t worry. You can create it for free from here.
  2. Visual Studio

Let’s start and create a Cosmos DB.

  1. Click on "New", then search for Cosmos DB.

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  1. To create a Cosmos DB account, fill in the required information.

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    Azure Cosmos DB
  1. After that, when the account is successfully created, follow the instructions – we can choose a platform from this screen, as for now, we are selecting .NET.

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  1. Download the project and try to run it using Visual Studio.

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  1. We can see a website in the Solution Explorer. Run the application.

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  1. The application runs successfully. Now, try to create a new To-Do.

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    Azure Cosmos DB
  1. Now, go to the Azure portal and click on "Open Data Explorer".

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  1. We can check all our data from here.

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References

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introduction