Creating an Azure DocumentDB account

In this post I will guide you on how to create an Azure DocumentDB account.

If you remember the Azure DocumentDB resource model, the entire resource model is rooted at the Database account:

So, step by step:

1. Go to the preview portal: https://portal.azure.com/
2. Click the NEW button at the bottom...

DocumentDB Studio first (beta) release

I finally done a first release of my latest project, DocumentDB Studio!

DocumentDB Studio is to Azure DocumentDB what SQL Management Studio is to SQL Server and SQL Azure: a one-stop shop to manage and interact with your DocumentDB.

The first release is quite minimalist and only let you:

• Connect to...

Profile of MSN Health and Fitness on Azure DocumentDB

We already know that Azure DocumentDB was used in the back-end of OneNote. Last week Microsoft released another nice case study: the user profiles for MSN portal.

The requirements for the solution were:

1. Scale requirements to support +425M unique MSN users with +100M direct authenticated users. Initial capacity requirements for 20TB of document storage.
2. Under 15ms...

NoSQL implementation concepts

While familiarizing ourselves with Microsoft new DocumentDB, a solid foundation on NoSQL doesn't hurt.

A few years ago, I saw a couple of great presentations on Channel9 (from a TechED if I am not mistaken) about Azure Storage. The presenters went into how partitioning works, how requests are routed, how consistency is ensure,...

Digest: DocumentDB Resource Model and Concepts

Azure DocumentDB has release a few weeks ago and with it an early, in small quantity, of good quality documentation.

One of those article is DocumentDB Resource Model and Concepts. That article goes through the different concepts of the inner model of DocumentDB.

That article sheds some light on the product but also reveal the...