Elements

Elements in an Azure Cosmos DB account

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS). To begin using Azure Cosmos DB, create an Azure Cosmos DB account in an Azure resource group in your subscription. You then create databases and containers within the account.

Some of the ways in which you can access Azure Cosmos are:

Azure portal

Azure command line interface

Azure REST API

Azure SDK

In Azure Cosmos DB, a database is similar to a namespace. A database is simply a group of containers. The following image shows the hierarchy of elements in an Azure Cosmos DB account:

Hierarchy of different entities in an Azure Cosmos DB