DocumentDB is a powerful NoSQL solution. It provides elastic scale, high performance, global distribution, a flexible data model, and is fully managed. If you are looking for a scaled OLTP solution that is too much for SQL Server to handle (i.e. millions of transactions per second) and/or will be using JSON documents, DocumentDB is the answer.

1. Microsoft Azure DocumentDB
Overview presentation
James Serra
Big Data Evangelist
Microsoft
JamesSerra3@gmail.com

2. About Me
 Microsoft, Big Data Evangelist
 In IT for 30 years, worked on many BI and DW projects
 Worked as desktop/web/database developer, DBA, BI and DW architect and developer, MDM
architect, PDW/APS developer
 Been perm employee, contractor, consultant, business owner
 Presenter at PASS Business Analytics Conference, PASS Summit, Enterprise Data World conference
 Certifications: MCSE: Data Platform, Business Intelligence; MS: Architecting Microsoft Azure
Solutions, Design and Implement Big Data Analytics Solutions, Design and Implement Cloud Data
Platform Solutions
 Blog at JamesSerra.com
 Former SQL Server MVP
 Author of book “Reporting with Microsoft SQL Server 2012”

3. Agenda
NoSQL Overview
DocumentDB Overview
Today’s application environment
Pricing
DocumentDB basics
Service summary
Development scenarios
Resources and tools

4. What is NoSQL?
Choose the store that
best fits your needs
A database solution designed to compensate for the technical limitations of SQL

5. Traditional approach: relational stores
Data is stored in tables that comprise:
• Schemas
• Columns
• Rows
Chappell & Associates. “Understanding NoSQL on Microsoft Azure.” 2014. http://www.davidchappell.com/writing/white_papers/Azure-NoSQL-Technologies-v2.0--Chappell.pdf.
Image based on: PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Data models in NoSQL and NewSQL databases.” 2015
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2015/remapping-database-landscape/features/assets/data-models-production.pdf

6. Azure DocumentDB
Uses all but graph category
Includes some key-value and columnstore capabilities
NoSQL approach: various types of stores
PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Data models in NoSQL and NewSQL databases.” 2015
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2015/remapping-database-landscape/features/assets/data-models-production.pdf
A NoSQL database uses four categories of stores:

7. Key-value stores
Key-value stores offer high speed
through the least-complicated data
model—anything can be stored as
a value, as long as each value is
associated with a key or name.
Key Value
Image based on: PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Data models in NoSQL and NewSQL databases.” 2015
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2015/remapping-database-landscape/features/assets/data-models-production.pdf

8. Wide-column stores
Wide-column stores are fast and can be almost as simple as key-value stores. They
include a primary key, an optional secondary key, and anything stored as a value.
Image based on: PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Data models in NoSQL and NewSQL databases.” 2015
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2015/remapping-database-landscape/features/assets/data-models-production.pdf
Values
Primary key
Keys and values can be
sparse or numerous
Secondary key

9. Graph databases
Image based on: PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Data models in NoSQL and NewSQL databases.” 2015
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2015/remapping-database-landscape/features/assets/data-models-production.pdf
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10. Document stores
Document stores contain data objects
that are inherently hierarchical, tree-
like structures (most notably JavaScript
Object Notation [JSON] or Extensible
Markup Language [XML]).
Note that these are not Microsoft
Word documents!
Image based on: PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Data models in NoSQL and NewSQL databases.” 2015
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2015/remapping-database-landscape/features/assets/data-models-production.pdf

11. NewSQL: another variation
Relational NewSQL stores are
designed for web-scale applications,
but they still require up-front schemas,
joins, and table management that can
be labor intensive.
Image based on: PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Data models in NoSQL and NewSQL databases.” 2015.
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2015/remapping-database-landscape/features/assets/data-models-production.pdf.

12. Why NoSQL evolved
Image based on: PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Data models in NoSQL and NewSQL databases.” 2015
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2015/remapping-database-landscape/features/assets/data-models-production.pdf
Drivers

13. SQL and NoSQL: each has its place
Fully featured RDBMS
Transactional processing
RichQuery
Managed as a service
Elastic scale
Internet-accessible http/rest
Schema-free data model
Arbitrary data formats

14. Azure DocumentDB
Perfect for cloud architects and developers who need an enterprise-ready NoSQL document database
JSON
{
"name": "John",
"country": "Canada",
"age": 43,
"lastUse": "March 4, 2014"
}
{
"name": "Eva",
"country": "Germany",
"age": 25
}
{
"name": "Lou",
"country": "Australia",
"age": 51,
"firstUse": "May 8, 2013"
}
{
"docCount": 3,
"last": "May 1, 2014"
}
DOCUMENT1
DOCUMENT2
DOCUMENT3
DOCUMENT4
A NoSQL document database-as-a-service, fully managed by Azure

15. {
"name": "SmugMug",
"permalink": "smugmug",
"homepage_url": "http://www.smugmug.com",
"blog_url": "http://blogs.smugmug.com/",
"category_code": "photo_video",
"products": [
{
"name": "SmugMug",
"permalink": "smugmug"
}
],
"offices": [
{
"description": "",
"address1": "67 E. Evelyn Ave",
"address2": "",
"zip_code": "94041",
"city": "Mountain View",
"state_code": "CA",
"country_code": "USA",
"latitude": 37.390056,
"longitude": -122.067692
}
]
}
Perfect for: schema-agnostic JSON store for
hierarchical and denormalized data at scale
What documents?
Not Word documents

16. Azure DocumentDB details
Native support for JavaScript, SQL query, and transactions over JSON documents
Reliable and
predictable
performance
• Tunable consistency
• Elastic scale
Rapid
development
• Build with familiar tools—REST,
JSON, JavaScript
RichQuery and
transactions
over JSON data
• Query JSON data with no
secondary indices
Ideal for apps designed for the cloud when the following are high priorities:

17. Top Features
Auto-scaling/sharding
• Improved scalability and reliability due to distribution
of large data sets across multiple machines
Automatic indexing
• All document properties are available for queries
• Frees you from relying on schemas or secondary indexes
SQL query language
• Make use of SQL experience and .NET LINQ
Managed service
• Spin up on demand with no setup
• Availability guarantee of 99.95%
• Linear price curve without virtual-machine step functions
• Integration with Azure HDInsight and Azure Search

18. Top Features
Greater consistency control
• Four consistency levels provide more options for
consistency, availability, and performance requirements
Atomicity, Consistency,
Isolation, and Durability
(ACID) transaction control
• Simpler programming model (compared to state variables)
• Use JavaScript for insert, update, and delete actions
Standards-based open
API with RESTful HTTP
• Uses JSON standard—no mapping of Binary
JSON (BSON) to JSON needed
Granular access rights
• Allows access to all documents and attachments
within collections

19. Monitor an account
• View performance metrics for a DocumentDB account
• Customize performance metric views for a DocumentDB account
• Create side-by-side performance metric charts
• View usage metrics for a DocumentDB account
• Set up performance metric alerts for a DocumentDB account

20. Today’s modern apps
• Produce and consume data at a staggering rate
• Require instantaneous response times to
match user expectations
• Are developed iteratively with many versions
supported concurrently
• Are developed with continuously evolving
data models
• Are increasingly complex
• Experience unpredictable and explosive growth

21. Well-suited for web and mobile apps
Catalog data Preferences
and state
Event store
User-generated
content
Data exchange

22. Azure DocumentDB at Microsoft
More than 450 million unique users
Store 20 TB of JSON document data
Under 15 millisecond (ms) writes and
single-digit ms reads
Store for 40+ app/device combinations
Available globally to serve all markets
USER DATA STORE

23. Standard pricing tier with hourly billing

24. Azure DocumentDB basics
Resource model
• Entities addressable by logical Uniform Resource
Identifier (URI)
• Partitioned for scale out
• Replicated for high availability
• Entities represented as JSON
• Accounts scale out by moving a slider
Interaction model
• RESTful interaction over HTTPS
• HTTPS and TCP connectivity
• Standard HTTPS verbs and semantics
Development
• .NET, Node.js, Python, Java, and JavaScript clients
• SQL for query expression, .NET LINQ
• JavaScript for server-side app logic
Azure
DocumentDB
account Databases
Users
Permissions
101
010
Attachments
Your documents here
{ }
{ }
DocumentsCollections
Stored procedures
Triggers
User-defined functions
JS
JS
JS

25. • Collections != tables
• Unit of partitioning
• Transaction boundary
• No enforced schema, flexible
• Queried or updated stay together in
one collection
• Elasticity to 10 GB
• RUs evenly distributed
across partitions
Azure DocumentDB collections
101
010
Attachments
Your documents here
DocumentsCollections
Stored procedures
Triggers
User-defined functions
JS
JS
JS

26. …
Elastic collections
• Collection != single partition
• Partition count dynamic
• Each partition (key) is 10 GB
• Online splits and merges with
full availability
• RUs evenly distributed
across partitions

27. Rich query over JSON data
Native JavaScript
transactional
processing
Familiar SQL-based
query language
Query on JSON data
without specifying
secondary indices or
constructing views
Build modern, scalable apps with robust transactional querying and data
processing on JSON documents

28. JavaScript transactions
Transactionally process multiple documents
with application-defined stored procedures
and triggers
• JavaScript as the procedural language
• Language integrated
• Execution wrapped in an implicit transaction
• Preregistered and scoped to a collection
• Performed with ACID guarantees
• Triggers invoked as pre- or post-operations
Stored procedures
JS
Triggers

29. Reliable and predictable performance
Tunable
consistency
Elastic scaleFast, predictable
performance
Defined throughput levels that scale
linearly with application needs
Azure DocumentDB is born in the cloud to achieve fast, predictable performance
with reserved resources to deliver on throughput needs. Delivers reliable, tunable
consistency to increase performance based on application needs.

30. Document myDoc = await
client.ReadDocumentAsync(documentLink, new
RequestOptions { ConsistencyLevel =
ConsistencyLevel.Eventual });
Four consistency levels
Strong Session
Bounded
Staleness
Eventual
Lower consistency level on read operations

31. Consistency levels enable guarantees
Choose your consistency level and make predictable trade-offs between
consistency, availability, and performance
Choose
your level
Strong
Data consistency
Session
Monotonic reads
(on explicit read
requests) and writes
Bounded Staleness
Total order of
propagation of writes
Eventual
Lowest latency
for reads and writes

32. Security model
Azure Document DB is designed to be secure with:
• Master key
• Access control on resources
• User operations
• Permission operations
• Code execution

33. Rapid development
Easy to start and
fully-manage
Enterprise-grade
Azure platform
Build with familiar
tools—REST, JSON,
and JavaScript
Reduce development friction and complexity when building new business-class
applications by using familiar tools and industry-standard platforms. Combine
Azure DocumentDB with a portfolio of complementary cloud services on the
Azure platform, such as the Azure HDInsight Connector and Azure Search Indexer

34. Tools
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-
us/blog/exploring-azure-documentdb-
in-visual-studio/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-
us/documentation/articles/documentdb
-import-data/
http://portal.azure.com

35. Azure DocumentDB service summary
Unique among NoSQL stores:
• Developed for the cloud and for delivery
as a service
• Truly query-able JSON store
• Transactional processing through language-
integrated JavaScript
• Predictable performance and
tunable consistency

36. Development scenarios
Consider Azure DocumentDB when you need:
• To build new web and mobile cloud-based applications
• Rapid development and high-scalability requirements
• Query and processing of user- and device-generated data
• More query and processing support for your key-value stores
• To run a document store in virtual machines
• A managed service model

37. Build your first Azure DocumentDB app today
Get support
Schedule a 1:1 chat directly with
the Azure DocumentDB engineering
team at askdocdb.com
Give feedback
Ask questions through the forum
at http://aka.ms/docdbforum
Suggest an idea and vote to support
other ideas for Azure DocumentDB at
http://aka.ms/docdbideas
On Twitter @documentdb
Get started
Sign up for Azure DocumentDB
at http://aka.ms/docdbstart
Access and configure your account
at http://portal.azure.com
Download an SDK from
http://aka.ms/docdbsdks,
and then build a sample at
http://aka.ms/docdbsample

38. Go to
http://www.documentdb.com/sql/demo
Test out sample queries or
write your own against the
dataset
Using DocumentDB Query Playground

39. Learn more
David Chappell NoSQL overview paper on Infopedia
http://www.davidchappell.com/writing/white_papers/Azure-NoSQL-Technologies-v2.0--Chappell.pdf
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern
Databases and the NoSQL Movement [book]
http://www.pdfiles.com/pdf/files/English/Databases/Seven_Databases_In_Seven_Weeks.pdf
Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball
[paper]
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=206913

40. Q & A ?
James Serra, Big Data Evangelist
Email me at: JamesSerra3@gmail.com
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