Azure Cosmos DB Client Library for Java - version 4.57.0

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Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service for operational and analytics workloads. It offers multi-mastering feature by automatically scaling throughput, compute, and storage. This project provides SDK library in Java for interacting with SQL API of Azure Cosmos DB Database Service.

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Getting started

Include the package

Include the BOM file

Please include the azure-sdk-bom to your project to take dependency on GA version of the library. In the following snippet, replace the {bom_version_to_target} placeholder with the version number. To learn more about the BOM, see the AZURE SDK BOM README.

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
            <artifactId>azure-sdk-bom</artifactId>
            <version>{bom_version_to_target}</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

and then include the direct dependency in the dependencies section without the version tag.

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
    <artifactId>azure-cosmos</artifactId>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

Include direct dependency

If you want to take dependency on a particular version of the library that is not present in the BOM, add the direct dependency to your project as follows.

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
  <artifactId>azure-cosmos</artifactId>
  <version>LATEST</version>
</dependency>

Refer to maven central for previous releases

Refer to javadocs for more details on the package

Prerequisites

SLF4J is only needed if you plan to use logging, please also download an SLF4J binding which will link the SLF4J API with the logging implementation of your choice. See the SLF4J user manual for more information.

The SDK provides Reactor Core based async APIs. You can read more about Reactor Core and Flux/Mono types here

Authenticate the client

In order to interact with the Azure Cosmos DB service you'll need to create an instance of the Cosmos Client class. To make this possible you will need an url and key of the Azure Cosmos DB service.

The SDK provides two clients.

  1. CosmosAsyncClient for operations using asynchronous APIs.
  2. CosmosClient for operations using synchronous (blocking) APIs.

Create CosmosAsyncClient

CosmosAsyncClient cosmosAsyncClient = new CosmosClientBuilder()
    .endpoint(serviceEndpoint)
    .key(key)
    .buildAsyncClient();

Create CosmosClient

CosmosClient cosmosClient = new CosmosClientBuilder()
    .endpoint(serviceEndpoint)
    .key(key)
    .buildClient();

Key Concepts

Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK provides client-side logical representation to access the Azure Cosmos DB SQL API. A Cosmos DB account contains zero or more databases, a database (DB) contains zero or more containers, and a container contains zero or more items. You may read more about databases, containers and items here. A few important properties defined at the level of the container, among them are provisioned throughput and partition key.

Global Distribution

  • Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed database service that's designed to provide low latency, elastic scalability of throughput, well-defined semantics for data consistency, and high availability. In short, if your application needs guaranteed fast response time anywhere in the world, if it's required to be always online, and needs unlimited and elastic scalability of throughput and storage, you should build your application on Azure Cosmos DB. You may read more about global distribution here.

Throughput Provisioning

  • Azure Cosmos DB allows you to set provisioned throughput on your databases and containers. There are two types of provisioned throughput, standard (manual) or autoscale. Provisioned throughput can be selected at per-container granularity or per-database granularity, however container-level throughput specification is typically preferred. You may read more about throughput provisioning here.

Request Units (RUs)

  • Azure Cosmos DB supports many APIs, such as SQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Gremlin, and Table. Each API has its own set of database operations. These operations range from simple point reads and writes to complex queries. Each database operation consumes system resources based on the complexity of the operation. The cost of all database operations is normalized by Azure Cosmos DB and is expressed by Request Units (or RUs, for short). You can think of RUs per second as the currency for throughput. RUs per second is a rate-based currency. It abstracts the system resources such as CPU, IOPS, and memory that are required to perform the database operations supported by Azure Cosmos DB. You may read more about request units here.

Partitioning

  • As items are inserted into a Cosmos DB container, the database grows horizontally by adding more storage and compute to handle requests. Storage and compute capacity are added in discrete units known as partitions, and you must choose one field in your documents to be the partition key which maps each document to a partition. The way partitions are managed is that each partition is assigned a roughly equal slice out of the range of partition key values; therefore you are advised to choose a partition key which is relatively random or evenly-distributed. Otherwise, some partitions will see substantially more requests (hot partition) while other partitions see substantially fewer requests (cold partition), and this is to be avoided. You may learn more about partitioning here.

Examples

The following section provides several code snippets covering some of the most common Cosmos DB SQL API tasks, including:

Create Cosmos Client

// Create a new CosmosAsyncClient via the CosmosClientBuilder
// It only requires endpoint and key, but other useful settings are available
CosmosAsyncClient cosmosAsyncClient = new CosmosClientBuilder()
    .endpoint("<YOUR ENDPOINT HERE>")
    .key("<YOUR KEY HERE>")
    .buildAsyncClient();

// Create a new CosmosClient via the CosmosClientBuilder
CosmosClient cosmosClient = new CosmosClientBuilder()
    .endpoint("<YOUR ENDPOINT HERE>")
    .key("<YOUR KEY HERE>")
    .buildClient();

// Create a new CosmosClient with customizations
cosmosClient = new CosmosClientBuilder()
    .endpoint(serviceEndpoint)
    .key(key)
    .directMode(directConnectionConfig, gatewayConnectionConfig)
    .consistencyLevel(ConsistencyLevel.SESSION)
    .connectionSharingAcrossClientsEnabled(true)
    .contentResponseOnWriteEnabled(true)
    .userAgentSuffix("my-application1-client")
    .preferredRegions(Arrays.asList("West US", "East US"))
    .buildClient();

Create Database

Using any one of the clients created in previous example, you can create a database like this:

// Get a reference to the container
// This will create (or read) a database and its container.
cosmosAsyncClient.createDatabaseIfNotExists("<YOUR DATABASE NAME>")
    // TIP: Our APIs are Reactor Core based, so try to chain your calls
    .map(databaseResponse -> cosmosAsyncClient.getDatabase(databaseResponse.getProperties().getId()))
    .subscribe(database -> System.out.printf("Created database '%s'.%n", database.getId()));

Create Container

Using the above created database, you can chain another operation to it for creating a container like this:

cosmosAsyncClient.createDatabaseIfNotExists("<YOUR DATABASE NAME>")
    // TIP: Our APIs are Reactor Core based, so try to chain your calls
    .flatMap(databaseResponse -> {
        String databaseId = databaseResponse.getProperties().getId();
        return cosmosAsyncClient.getDatabase(databaseId)
            // Create Container
            .createContainerIfNotExists("<YOUR CONTAINER NAME>", "/id")
            .map(containerResponse -> cosmosAsyncClient.getDatabase(databaseId)
                .getContainer(containerResponse.getProperties().getId()));
    })
    .subscribe(container -> System.out.printf("Created container '%s' in database '%s'.%n",
        container.getId(), container.getDatabase().getId()));

CRUD operation on Items

// Create an item
cosmosAsyncContainer.createItem(new Passenger("carla.davis@outlook.com", "Carla Davis", "SEA", "IND"))
    .flatMap(response -> {
        System.out.println("Created item: " + response.getItem());
        // Read that item 👓
        return cosmosAsyncContainer.readItem(response.getItem().getId(),
            new PartitionKey(response.getItem().getId()), Passenger.class);
    })
    .flatMap(response -> {
        System.out.println("Read item: " + response.getItem());
        // Replace that item 🔁
        Passenger p = response.getItem();
        p.setDestination("SFO");
        return cosmosAsyncContainer.replaceItem(p, response.getItem().getId(),
            new PartitionKey(response.getItem().getId()));
    })
    // delete that item 💣
    .flatMap(response -> cosmosAsyncContainer.deleteItem(response.getItem().getId(),
        new PartitionKey(response.getItem().getId())))
    .block(); // Blocking for demo purposes (avoid doing this in production unless you must)
// ...

We have a get started sample app available here.

Also, we have more examples examples project.

Troubleshooting

General

Azure Cosmos DB is a fast and flexible distributed database that scales seamlessly with guaranteed latency and throughput. You do not have to make major architecture changes or write complex code to scale your database with Azure Cosmos DB. Scaling up and down is as easy as making a single API call or SDK method call. However, because Azure Cosmos DB is accessed via network calls there are client-side optimizations you can make to achieve peak performance when using Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK v4.

  • Performance guide covers these client-side optimizations.

  • Troubleshooting guide covers common issues, workarounds, diagnostic steps, and tools when you use Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK v4 with Azure Cosmos DB SQL API accounts.

Enable Client Logging

Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK v4 uses SLF4j as the logging facade that supports logging into popular logging frameworks such as log4j and logback.

For example, if you want to use log4j as the logging framework, add the following libs in your Java classpath.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
  <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
  <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>log4j</groupId>
  <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
  <version>${log4j.version}</version>
</dependency>

Also add a log4j config.

# this is a sample log4j configuration

# Set root logger level to INFO and its only appender to A1.
log4j.rootLogger=INFO, A1

log4j.category.com.azure.cosmos=INFO
#log4j.category.io.netty=OFF
#log4j.category.io.projectreactor=OFF
# A1 is set to be a ConsoleAppender.
log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender

# A1 uses PatternLayout.
log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %5X{pid} [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n

Next Steps

Contributing

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This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

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