Part 6 in Azure Cosmos DB architecture Series Keep Learning and Spread your Knowledge if you don’t read the previous parts I highly recommend you to take a look into them:
Again, still we have a lot of information we can spread our knowledge on it for Cosmos DB today I will talk about Cosmos DB API options and How I can choose between them and what is the key factor I should consider it when I choosing the Cosmos DB API. IF you don’t read my last articles in Azure Cosmos DB so here is your road map to learn Cosmos DB:
In my first article in Azure Cosmos DB, we talked about What is Cosmos DB and How to provisions it, then in the Second article we talked about Partitioning Architecture in Azure Cosmos DB, then in third Article we talked about Azure Cosmos DB Global data distribution Architecture, today we will complete our series to talk about Consistency Architecture in Azure Cosmos DB For more information about my Azure articles check this link, Keep Following to learn More about Azure and Cosmos DB
Introduction
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Provide 5 level of Consistency (Strong, Bounded staleness, Session, Consistency prefix, Eventual) Before Explaining What is Consistency, Why I should take care about Consistency, Which Consistency is best for my APP design before all of that let us talk first about CAP Theorem
In my first article in Azure Cosmos DB, we talked about What is Cosmos DB and How to provisions it, then in the Second article we talked about Partitioning Architecture in Azure Cosmos DB. And today we will complete our learning to understand What is global distribution in Azure Cosmos DB? For more information about my Azure articles check this link
When we say global distribution you Should think Automatically in Cosmos DB because it is the most solution in the market provide this feature global distribution, But why global distribution we should be interested in it for couple of reasons unlimited elastic write and read scalability, Yes Cosmos DB provides a solution to read and write option in multiple regions most of the databases solutions provide read scalability but in Azure Cosmos DB we have also write scalability.
In my first article in Cosmos DB, I talked about the basic information about How to provision Cosmos DB, and today we will complete our discussion in How Cosmos DB Partitioning work, and What are the Logical Partition and Physical Partition then in the upcoming posts we will talk more and more about Designing and Architecture Layers for Cosmos DB Such as Consistency levels in Cosmos DB Which Consistency levels are suitable with your APP, What are Cosmos API choices, Disaster Recovery and High Availability in Cosmos DB Keep Following ..