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IoT Solutions and Azure Cosmos DB

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OlivierBloch
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Nov 20, 2019
Here are the 2 main reasons why Azure Cosmos DB is great for in IoT applications: Cosmos DB can ingest semi-structured data at extremely high rates. Cosmos DB can serve indexed queries back out...
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I am Principal Program Manager at Microsoft in the Azure Light Edge team, working on developer experience and advocating for Internet of Things developers. I have worked in the IoT space for as long as I remember, first as an embedded developer and consultant, then as a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft France then Microsoft Corp. I also spent 3 years in Microsoft Open Technologies, engaging with open source communities on topics going from Web and JavaScript to gaming and IoT
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JoshuaK
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Nov 26, 2019

Given the volume of data and the 10Gb partition limit, what is the approach for keeping data sizes in check? In your example, a city with multiple oil wells would probably hit that limit rather quickly (days/weeks). Is the approach just to introduce look-back reporting constraints for hot data and leverage TTL? In very high volume IoT scenarios with business requirements around look-back this could be an issue.