Mustafa EL-Masry Big Data

Big Data Storage in Microsoft Azure


Azure storage is a Microsoft solution designed to store your data on it with different models (Blobs, Tables, Queue, File Shares, and Disks) to know the differences, usage, High Availability and the architecture for Azure storage I highly recommend you to check this path you will find a lot of tips and articles About Azure storage subject.

Now let us take a look about storage technology when we talk about Big data, what is the best option for our data and how I can choose the best option, based on what so let us think from architecture and design point of view.

Microsoft provided a variety of options to store your big data on it based on your requirements and based on the data type, in this article we will discuss 4 options that can be used as Azure storage solution for big data.

  • Azure Storage Blobs
  • Azure Data Lake Store
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure HBase on HDInsight
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Mustafa EL-Masry Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos Database Basics


Introduction

Azure Cosmos Database one of the Non-Relational NoSQL Database provided by Microsoft and we have another NoSQL Options in Azure like (Data Lake Storage Gen2, Blob Storage, Redis Cache, HBase in HDInsight), also Azure Cosmos Database Supported multiple API like (Core SQL, Mango DB, Cassandra, Graph, Azure Table) IF you need to learn more about this Point Check this Link Choose the appropriate API for Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Cosmos Database supported Write option in multiple regains in the same Database and the synchronizations tacking care about syncing the data. For more information about Azure Cosmos database, I highly recommend you to look into Microsoft Documentation

  • How to Provision Azure Cosmos DB Account
  • How to Provision Azure Cosmos DB Container
  • Load and Explorer the data into Azure Cosmos DB Container
  • Replication in Azure Cosmos DB
  • Data Consistency in Azure Cosmos DB
  • Cosmos DB and open Source
  • Azure Cosmos Database Resources
Cosmos DB NoSQL

How to Provision Azure Cosmos DB Account

To Create Azure Cosmos Database we need to create First Database account and this like Database instance we can host on it multiple databases, then after this step, we need to create Container ID and this the Database name in this you can find below what is the information required when we need to create Azure Cosmos Database account and for how to do it check below 👇✅ GIF File ✅to know how you can do it and For more information Check this Article

  • Account Name: it is like the instance name in SQL Server
  • Notebooks: Jupyter notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents it is like the Azure Data Studio Notebook For more information read this Article
  • Location: The location you need to host on it your Azure Cosmos DB account
  • Account Type: It is something like a definition or categorized, we can consider it like Azure Resource Tag.
  • Geo-Redundancy: Enabling this Option automatically replicates your data to the region geo-paired with your current region you selected it. For more information about the Region geo-paired check this link Azure Regional Pairs IF you don’t enable it during the setup you can enable it after the configuration from the main overview of the Azure Cosmos Account
Enable Geo-Redundancy
  • Multi-region Write: Enable the write option on the Regions you selected it on the geo-redundancy this means If you need to enable the Multi Regions Write option you Should Enable the Geo-Redundancy option with it this option you can enable it after the installation from Replicate Data Globally option If you need to learn more about this option check this Link

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