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How to use Azure Cosmos DB in .Net

How to use Azure Cosmos DB in .Net

April 30, 2018

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Azure Cosmos DB is an easy-to-use, scalable, NoSQL database available in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. Cosmos DB is hosted on SSDs and hence data storage and retrieval is very fast. This database service also supports multiple data models including document, key-value, graph, and columnar, so can be leveraged for all kinds of applications. We will focus on Cosmos DB’s document data model, which is accessed through the SQL API (formerly known as the DocumentDB API).

Similar to MongoDB and RavenDB, the document data model in Azure Cosmos DB allows you to store data represented as JSON without an enforced schema. In this article I will discuss the use of Azure Cosmos DB as a JSON document store and how we can work with it in .Net.

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