I’ve put this off for too long. It’s time to get my feet wet with some new tech.
Step 1 is easy. Go to the Azure portal and start the process for creating a DocumentDB:
While that’s running, let’s see what’s on the interwebs about getting started in DocumentDB…
Nice. I know I’m going to have write a little code to exercise this thing. Here’s a great run-through on exactly how to do it. Actually, the first hit when I searched on “Getting Started With DocumentDB.” Microsoft has a start page on DocumentDB, but it was clearly put together by someone from marketing. Scroll down to the bottom. There are a couple of interesting links including SQL Query Within DocumentDB. Now we’re talking. Here’s a Curah! or Docs.com (which is it? do I care?) on DocumentDB with some of the above links and a few others. I spot a theme on this one. Here’s a more thorough how-to on querying DocumentDB.
Plenty to read, lots to do. And look, I have a DocumentDB database ready and waiting:
I’ll report back as I get things going.
I’ve played with DocumentDb before, hoping it would be great for storing schemaless JSON data such as social media data.
Unfortunately, unlike MongoDb, there doesn’t appear to be any solution for running aggregate queries, which I found to be a big drawback for my own use cases.
Good to know. Thanks Neil.