Cosmos DB Basics
Is a globally replicated, multi-model database service that that offers rich querying over schema-free data, helps deliver configurable and reliable performance, and enables rapid development.
What is Azure Cosmos DB?
Cosmos DB is schema-agnostic, horizontally scalable, and generally classified as a ____ database?
What is NoSQL?
Cosmos DB was previously named this in the Azure Portal.
What is DocumentDB?
With Azure Cosmos DB, your data can be replicated globally by adding Azure regions with just one click.
What is Globally Distributed?
The company that develops and supports Azure Cosmos DB.
What is Microsoft?
Table, SQL, Cassandra, and Spark are some of the examples of what Multi-Modal interfaces in CosmosDB?
What are APIs?
NoSQL originally referring to "non SQL" or a ____ database.
What is "non-relational"?
Use this tool in Azure Portal to create an Azure Cosmos DB.
What is Data Explorer?
The ability to handle the increased load by adding more servers to the cluster.
What is Linear Scalability?
A collection of data items with pre-defined relationships between them. These items are organized as a set of tables with columns and rows.
What is a relational database?
Internally, CosmosDB stores "items" in these things.
What are "containers"?
This type of NoSQL store uses the associative array (also called a map or dictionary) as their fundamental data model.
What is a Key-Value store?
This is a prerequisite to create an Azure Cosmos DB.
What is an Azure Subscription?
This enables automatic indexing of the data. Cosmos DB automatically indexes all the data without requiring schema and index management.
The acronym SQL stands for this.
What is the Structured Query Language?
In 2016, Azure Cosmos DB added this feature to scale individual containers in a database to meet the performance needs of your application.
What is Partitioning?
This type of store is designed for data whose relations are well represented as a ____ consisting of elements connected by a finite number of relations
What is a graph?
One of the three ways to work with Azure Cosmos Database resources outside of Azure Portal.
*Just need to name one of the methods.
What is Powershell, Azure CLI, or Resouce Manager templates?
This allows for the storing of data in Key-value Pair, Document-based, Graph-based, Column Family-based databases.
What is Multi-Modal databases?
The acronym ACID refers to a standard set of properties that guarantee database transactions are processed reliably.
*What are those properties?
What are Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability?
In Azure Cosmos DB's SQL (Core) API, items are stored as this format.
What is JSON?
This type of store encapsulates and encodes data (or information) in some standard formats or encodings that include XML, YAML, and JSON.
What is a Document store?
This pane allows you to add/remove regions from your database account in Azure Portal for Cosmos DB.
What is the "Replicate Data globally" pane.
Eventual, Prefix, Session, Bounded and Strong are examples of what type of support in Cosmos DB?
What is Multi-Consistency Support?
As of December 2018, Cosmos DB can be configured in to be available in this number of Microsoft Azure regions.
What is 54?