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Introducing DocumentDB: A NoSQL Database for Azure  
# Friday, September 12, 2014
 
Document databases are probably the most popular NoSQL stores today. MongoDB has lots of users, for example, as do RavenDB and others. If you'd like to run these on Azure, you certainly can: MongoDB and RavenDB are both available in the Azure store today.

Alongside these, Microsoft now offers DocumentDB, its own document database for Azure. Like most of what Microsoft adds to Azure today, DocumentDB is a managed service, so creating and using databases is relatively straightforward. And like MongoDB, DocumentDB stores JSON documents grouped into collections, although these two document stores also differ in some interesting ways.

I've written a Microsoft-sponsored introduction to DocumentDB, available here, that gives an overview of the technology. The target audience isn't NoSQL database experts, though. My goal was to explain this technology in a way that would make sense to a .NET developer who works in the relational world, a category that I'd argue is much larger today than the set of NoSQL experts. If that's you, and if you're interested in modern data technologies, you might find the paper worthwhile.

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Visiting Central and Eastern Europe  
# Wednesday, September 10, 2014
 
I'm returning to Europe later this month for a two-week speaking tour, sponsored by Microsoft. I'm doing a variety of talks in different cities, all related to Azure and cloud computing. Here are the cities and dates:

• September 23: Bratislava
• September 25: Vilnius
• September 30: Kiev
• October 2: Budapest
• October 3: Prague

After visiting many times, I've become really fond of this part of the world. I'm looking forward to the tour.

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