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Data Modeling for Azure Data Services

You're reading from   Data Modeling for Azure Data Services Implement professional data design and structures in Azure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077347
Length 428 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Peter ter Braake Peter ter Braake
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Preface 1. Section 1 – Operational/OLTP Databases
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Databases FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Entity Analysis 4. Chapter 3: Normalizing Data 5. Chapter 4: Provisioning and Implementing an Azure SQL DB 6. Chapter 5: Designing a NoSQL Database 7. Chapter 6: Provisioning and Implementing an Azure Cosmos DB Database 8. Section 2 – Analytics with a Data Lake and Data Warehouse
9. Chapter 7: Dimensional Modeling 10. Chapter 8: Provisioning and Implementing an Azure Synapse SQL Pool 11. Chapter 9: Data Vault Modeling 12. Chapter 10: Designing and Implementing a Data Lake Using Azure Storage 13. Section 3 – ETL with Azure Data Factory
14. Chapter 11: Implementing ETL Using Azure Data Factory 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Getting to know Cosmos DB

There are many different NoSQL databases. They all have their own special characteristics. Microsoft offers Azure Cosmos DB as their flagship NoSQL cloud database. Cosmos DB allows us to use different APIs to connect to Cosmos DB. This is to facilitate migration from different on-premises NoSQL databases to Azure. Before we go into other types of databases, we will discuss Cosmos DB's native type. Cosmos DB is a document database.

MongoDB is the best-known open source document database. One of the APIs that Cosmos DB supports is the MongoDB API. This means that applications can write code to Cosmos DB as if it were a MongoDB. However, be aware that Cosmos DB only mimics the API from MongoDB. It actually has a different logical structure underneath that you need to be aware of.

Cosmos DB also has a SQL API. This means that we can write SELECT statements to query Cosmos DB databases.

Document databases store data as JSON documents. Document databases...

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