Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s fully managed, globally distributed NoSQL(means Not only SQL) database service.It’s designed for applications that need to handle massive scale, low-latency data access, and high availability across multiple regions worldwide.
supports Global distribution ,Guaranteed low latency,Elastic scalability , Microsoft provides 99.999% availability with guarantees on latency, consistency, and throughput.
Its a multi-model database ,supports different data models : Document (JSON),Key-Value,Graph,Column-family,Table API (for Azure Table storage compatibility)
supports APIs for different workloads:SQL API (native Cosmos DB query language, works with JSON docs)MongoDB API,Cassandra API ,Gremlin API ,Table API
Microsoft provides a free tier access so devs can easily experiment with the service , In order to create the DB go to your Azure subscription find azure cosmos db and click on create .
select cosmos DB for no SQL native API
from here you can follow the setup and fill in the required parameters , workload type provides an exclusive Learning type
once created you can go to quick start guide , follow the steps and create a database
open in code space to experiment with in the browser , replace the key value , compile and run
this will insert the records in the DB , that you can also view from data explorer
