Emulator
For local development and testing. Gut felt like it's one of the least asked question in exam.
- Connection is to localhost:8081.
- Internally has a certificate hence need to use https connection. In real life a fusfrating emulator as the certificate do expires and sometime for months.
- Most information is in the official doc.
Limitation
- Hierarchy key unsupported
- You can only test Strong and Session consistency
- Max 5 join in query
- Nothing with Cloud/Scale works
- No serverless https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/emulator?context=%2Fazure%2Fcosmos-db%2Fnosql%2Fcontext%2Fcontext