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Python + Azure Cosmos DB

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Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service that is elastically scalable and extremely fast. The fact that it is globally distributed means that it is an excellent…

Azure Cosmos DB: Use Cases and Trade-Offs

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Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed, elastically scalable and globally distributed database with a multi-model approach, and provides you with the ability to use document, key-value, wide-column, or…

How to do advanced analytics on graph data in Azure Cosmos DB

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Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed multi-database service. It enables you to build highly responsive applications worldwide. As part of Cosmos DB, Gremlin is supported for graph databases. Since…

Diving into Gremlin queries in Azure Cosmos DB

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Thanks to the Gremlin API offering of Azure Cosmos DB, we can build globally distributed databases that store and operate on graph data. We can perform graph queries in Cosmos DB using the Gremlin…

Understanding Autopilot Mode in Azure Cosmos DB

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In November 2019, The Azure Cosmos DB team announced a bunch of cool features that makes developing and administrating Cosmos DB applications a lot easier. My favorite feature by far is the new…

Getting Started with Graph Databases in Azure Cosmos DB

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In Azure Cosmos DB, we can build graph databases using the Gremlin API offering. Like many up and coming trends in the data universe, you may hear people talk about Graph databases and roll your eyes…...

Exploring built-in Jupyter Notebooks in Azure Cosmos DB

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In May 2019, The Cosmos DB team announced the preview of running Jupyter notebooks inside Cosmos DB accounts. The feature became publicly available in September 2019 and it’s available for all Cosmos…...

Working with Azure Cosmos DB in your Azure Functions

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Developing Azure Functions that use Azure Cosmos DB as a data-store is quite simple to achieve. We can invoke our Azure Functions with a CosmosDB Trigger, we can use input and output bindings to get…

Cosmos DB: Fastest Way(s) to Insert Data with the Python SDK

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N o, this article does not consider usage of the Cosmos DB Spark Connector for simplicity. Plus, you will soon find out that there will be too many numbers ahead to crunch that you wish I had not brou...

Increasing Private Endpoint HA with Multi-Region Cosmos DB (Part 1)

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Maximize your private endpoint high availability on your multi-region Cosmos DB by adopting the “active-active” methodology Continue reading on Level Up Coding

How to Get Cosmos DB Partition Count Via Python

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Use Python to get a real-time glimpse of the number of physical partitions belonging to your Cosmos DB database/containers Continue reading on Python in Plain English

Working with the Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed Processor in C#

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As part of v3 of the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK, The Cosmos DB integrated the Change Feed Processor as part of the library. Previously in v2, it had it’s own library that you had to download separately…...