Azure Cosmos DB Basics Online Course

Azure Cosmos DB Basics Online Course

Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB is a powerful tool for building highly responsive, globally distributed web and mobile applications. In this course, you will learn how Cosmos DB’s architecture enables low latency, high availability, and unlimited scalability through horizontal partitioning. You will explore key features such as automatic indexing, Time to Live (TTL), consistency levels, global distribution, multi-master replication, and failover. Practical lessons will guide you in inserting and querying data, monitoring performance through the account portal, and applying best practices for configuration. By the end of the course, you will be able to set up an account, manage data efficiently, and optimize Cosmos DB for real-world applications.

Who should take this Course?

The Azure Cosmos DB Basics Online Course is ideal for developers, database administrators, and cloud professionals who want to learn how to build and manage globally distributed, scalable applications using Azure Cosmos DB. It is also suitable for students, data engineers, and IT professionals seeking to understand NoSQL databases, multi-model data management, and cloud-native application development with Azure.

What you will learn

• Understand Azure cloud computing
• Learn the difference between SQL and NoSQL database
• Understand the four types of NoSQL databases
• Explore Table Storage versus Cosmos DB
• Understand Cosmos DB - partition and partitioning key
• Understand insert and query data in your cosmos DB

Course Outline

Introduction

• Course Introduction

Introduction to Azure Cloud Computing

• Create Azure Free Subscription
• Azure Portal Overview
• Delete Resources and Set Budget

Introduction to NoSQL DB

• Introduction to NoSQL
• SQL Versus NoSQL Database
• Four Types of NoSQL Databases
• NoSQL Offerings by Microsoft Azure

Cosmos DB - Introduction

• Problem Statement – How Cosmos DB Evolved
• Cosmos DB Features
• Cosmos DB - Multi Model 5 APIs
• Table Storage Versus Cosmos DB
• Provision Cosmos DB Account

Cosmos DB Internals and Partitioning

• Cosmos DB – Database Containers and Items
• Cosmos DB – Throughput and Request Units
• Cosmos DB – Horizontally Scalable
• Cosmos DB - Partition and Partitioning Key
• Cosmos DB - Dedicated Versus Shared Throughput
• Cosmos DB - Avoiding Hot Partition
• Cosmos DB - Single Partition Versus Cross Partition
• Cosmos DB - Composite Key
• Cosmos DB - Partition Key Best Practice

Cosmos DB – Other Important Features

• Cosmos DB - Automatic Indexing
• Demo Insert and Query Data in Your Cosmos DB
• Cosmos DB - Time to Live Feature
• Cosmos DB – Global Distribution Feature
• Cosmos DB – Multi-Master Feature
• Cosmos DB - Manual Versus Automatics Failover
• Cosmos DB - Five Consistent Levels
• Cosmos DB - Azure CLI
• Cosmos DB - Pricing

Cosmos DB – Monitoring and Security

• Cosmos DB - Monitoring Through AMS
• Cosmos DB - Monitoring Through the Account Portal
• Cosmos DB - Security