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Solutions for semistructured data on Azure

Solutions for semistructured data on Azure

- [Presenter] There are a few differing options of Microsoft solutions for semi-structured data in Azure. The choice of solution depends initially on the type of NoSQL database, which, as we have looked at previously, is based on your data's use case. Key-value stores are supported with Azure Table Storage, and basic graph database features started coming into Azure SQL VM from version 2017 upwards and can now be found in Azure SQL and Azure SQL DB. However, this implementation has limitations, and Azure Cosmos DB is the recommendation for graph databases on Azure. Azure Cosmos DB also supports the four common NoSQL database types: key-value, document, column, and graph. So what is a Azure Cosmos DB? It is a fully-managed NoSQL database which supports all four common NoSQL database types. All maintenance, patching, and updates are carried out for you. Availability is up to 99.999%, dependent on configuration, and all…

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