Which Azure Cosmos DB API should you use for a graph database?

The correct answer is D. Gremlin. Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Gremlin is a graph database service that can be used to store massive graphs with billions of vertices and edges. You can query the graphs with millisecond latency and evolve the graph structure easily. The API for Gremlin is built based on Apache…

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Which Azure Cosmos DB API should you use for a graph database?

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ATable
BCassandra
CCore (SQL)
DGremlin

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B
4% (1)
C
8% (2)
D
88% (23)

Explanation

Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Gremlin is a graph database service that can be used to store massive graphs with billions of vertices and edges. You can query the graphs with millisecond latency and evolve the graph structure easily. The API for Gremlin is built based on Apache TinkerPop, a graph computing framework that uses the Gremlin query language. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/gremlin/introduction

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