Azure CosmosDB – Quick Start Demo App

So one of the hottest thing in Azure these days is without doubt CosmosDB, Cosmos DB is

A database for extremely low latency and massively scalable applications anywhere in the world, with native support for NoSQL

To get started with your very first Azure CosmosDB

• go into the portal and click ass on Azure CosmosDB
• give your new database an id
• choose an API from the options available
  • SQL
  • MongoDB
  • Casandra
  • Azure Table
  • Gremlin (graph)
• select your Subscription
• select a resource group / create a new one
• choose a location
• optionally turn on geo-redundancy
• click pin to pin this to your dashboard

For this blog post I chose the SQL API and left geo-redundancy off.

Ok so once you’ve done this click on Quick Start

Now you’ll see that you can download a sample app using .Net, .Net Core, Xamarin, Java, node.js and Python which will download code for you to play around with and create a to-do app.

I chose .Net and downloaded the code to my machine and opened it up with Visual Studio, run the code and you have a working to-do application hitting your newly created Azure CosmosDB up in Azure.

Time to go play with Azure CosmosDB, enjoy.