Jay Bienvenu
Software developer.
BSON = an optimized binary representation of JSON.
Document ≈ JavaScript object
Other examples: CouchBase / Couch DB, DynamoDB (AWS)
DocumentDB is a service that is fully managed by Azure.
MongoDB is an application that runs in a machine.
DocumentDB vs. SQL Server in particular
and NoSQL databases vs. RMDBSs in general
The project:
"Monsters Masters & Mobsters"
A roleplaying/monster competition game
hosted in Azure using DocumentDB.
SELECT m.id, m.name FROM monsters m WHERE m.level = 5
Pages: Azure Portal - server.js - data.js - Monster
Write SQL-esque queries against document collections.
By Jay Bienvenu
A presentation on Azure's DocumentDB for the Baton Rouge .Net Users Group.