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Scale, scale, scale…For most of the professional life span of a database architect, these words reverberate whenever a new application is being developed. The most difficult challenge is to design a database in elastic mode. In the world of relational database management systems (RDBMSs) Relational database management systems (RDBMSs), this can occasionally be a nightmare, and it presents no less difficult a task in the realm of NoSQL too. In this chapter, you are going to learn how, using partitioning, Azure Cosmos DB scales databases.
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Sharma, M. (2018). Partitioning. In: Cosmos DB for MongoDB Developers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3682-6_5
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