Cosmos DB Emulator and its Installation

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Introduction

The Azure Cosmos Emulator provides an environment to the developer to develop applications using Azure CosmosDB service.

For using CosmosDB Emulator, Developers can work locally and test the data properly without having an Azure subscription.

Multiple APIs like SQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Gremlin (graph traversal language), and APIs, With a variety of options developers can develop applications in CosmosDB Emulator.

What is CosmosDB?

Azure DatabaseDB with NoSQL database service was designed for high performance along with world-wide distribution for availability.

For achieving application reliability and responsiveness, instances of these applications need to be deployed in datacenters that are close to their users.

Bulk of data changes of applications have a large storage which can be available to users in milliseconds.

System Requirements

Azure CosmosDB Emulator required following requirements:

• Software requirements
• Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, or Windows 10
• 64-bit operating system
• Minimum Hardware requirements
• 2GB RAM
• 10GB available hard disk space
• Prerequisites
• Azure provides a free of charge without having a subscription to the CosmosDB Emulator. For working in CosmosDB we need .NET Core 2.1 SDK or further versions.

Originally published at https://blog.yudiz.com on July 14, 2022.