Getting Started with Cosmos DB Development and NoSQL Document Databases

n this chapter, we will provision a Cosmos DB account that uses the SQL API and we will start working with a document database, its collections, and documents. We will work with Cosmos DB on Azure and we will also learn how to work with the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator. We will work with different tools to interact with our Cosmos DB document database that will be extremely useful for our common development tasks. We will do the following:

• Understand URIs, read-write and read-only keys, and connection strings
• Create a new document database with the SQL API
• Create a new collection
• Populate a collection with documents
• Understand automatically generated key-value pairs
• Understand schema-agnostic features
• Work with the web-based Azure Cosmos DB Explorer
• Use Azure Storage Explorer to interact with Cosmos DB databases
• Work with the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator