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Re:Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database by sealord on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @12:13PM (#14309350)
Not exactly. DocumentDB was primarily a document store. Cosmos allows you to store graphs and KV pairs as well.
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Re:Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database by jchrisa on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @12:25PM (#14309458)
I was unable to glean from a quick read of the consistency documentation, does CosmosDB support uniqueness and foreign key constraints?
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Re:Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database by sealord on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:55AM (#14314274)
Afraid not - there's no real concept of constraints with CosmosDB.
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Re:Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database by aliostad on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @01:07PM (#14309773)
DocumentDB is KV.
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Re:Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database by rattray on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @01:37PM (#14309981)
DocumentDB looks like a JSON document store?
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Re:Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database by hoschicz on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @02:47PM (#14310586)
It is.
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