Hacking: accessing a graph in Cosmos DB with SQL / DocumentDB API

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed multi-model database service.

At this point in time (August 2017) there are four supported models:  DocumentDB (also named SQL because the query language is similar to T-SQL), MongoDB, Tabular & Gremlin.

We’ve seen how to use Cosmos DB with...

Cosmos DB Async Querying & Streaming

I wrote an article back in January 2015 about async querying Azure DocumentDB using the .NET SDK.

The service was still in preview back then.

Since then DocumentDB has been superseded by Azure Cosmos DB and the SDK has changed a bit so I thought I would...

Cosmos DB & Graph with Gremlin - Getting Started

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed multi-model database service.

One of the paradigm it supports is Graph:  Cosmos DB can be used to store and query graphs.

At the time of this writing, it supports one interface, Gremlin, which is part of the Apache...

Azure Application Gateway Anatomy

Back in May, we talked about Azure Application Gateway.

In this article, we’re going to look at its anatomy, i.e. its internal component as exposed in the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) model.

A lot of Azure Resource has an internal structure.  For instance, a Virtual Network has a collection of subnets.

Azure Application Gateway has a very rich internal...

Hypersphere Volume

In our last article we looked at how the dimension of data space impacts Machine Learning algorithms.  This is often referred to as the curse of dimensionality.

At the heart of the article we discussed the fact that an hypersphere hyper-volume trends to zero as dimension increases.

Here...