Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service that supports document, key-value, wide-column, and graph databases. Use the Azure Cosmos DB SQL API SDK for Python to manage databases and the JSON documents they contain in this NoSQL database service. High level capabilities are: - Create Cosmos DB databases and modify their settings - Create and modify containers to store collections of JSON documents - Create, read, update, and delete the items (JSON documents) in your containers - Query the documents in your database using SQL-like syntax