DocumentDB – Indexing Records By default, DocumentDB automatically indexes every property in a document as soon as the document is added to the database. However, you can take control and fine tune your own indexing policy that reduces storage and processing overhead when there are specific documents and/or properties that never needs to be indexed. […]
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DocumentDB – Geospatial Data Microsoft added geospatial support, which lets you store location data in your documents and perform spatial calculations for distance and intersections between points and polygons. Spatial data describes the position and shape of objects in space. Typically, it can be used to represent the location of a person, a place of […]
DocumentDB – Partitioning When your database starts to grow beyond 10GB, you can scale out simply by creating new collections and then spreading or partitioning your data across more and more collections. Sooner or later a single collection, which has a 10GB capacity, will not be enough to contain your database. Now 10GB may not […]