Cosmos Db Introduction Part-1

Kajasumanie Kanapathipillai
2 min readJan 16, 2021

What is Cosmos DB?

Comos DB is a database service that is globally distributed. It allows you to manage your data even if you keep them in data centers that are scattered throughout the world. It provides the tools you need to scale both global distribution pattern and computational resources, and these tools are provided by Microsoft Azure.

The definition of Cosmos DB says ‘Globally Replicated’ which means, you can replicate your database in different geographical areas. It stores data in JSON format and there is no need to define the schema in advance…

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