Data Platform Tips 48 - Provisioning Azure Cosmos DB using Azure Portal

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed multi-model database service allows you to create Key/Value pair, Document and Graph databases. Cosmos DB provides turn key global distribution, always on with guaranteed high availability and supports schemaless design.

Provisioning Cosmos DB via Azure Portal

a) Log on to the Azure Portal.

b) Search for Cosmos DB in Azure marketplace.

c) Choose the API. Cosmos DB supports 5 data models. SQL API, MongoDB API, Table API, Cassandra API and Gremlin API.

d) Choose whether your solution require Geo-Redundancy and Multi-region writes.

e) Once CosmosDB is successfully provisioned we can go ahead and create the container and databases and we will look into that in tomorrow's post.