ColdFusion and Azure Cosmos DB

Last update:

May 18, 2026

Cosmos DB is a distributed database engine with a core set of features, like.

Ability to distribute your database globally
Ability to scale both storage and throughput
Low latency with enterprise grade security features

Cosmos DB can reshape data into formats that you may already be using. You can create a data model and then expose your model using one of many Cosmos DB API's.

For more information, see Azure Cosmos DB .

Integration with ColdFusion

Application.cfc

component { 

    this.name = "mongotests"; 

    this.serialization.preservecaseforstructkey=true 

    this.enableNullSupport=true 

    this.cosmosconfig = deserializejson(fileread(expandPath(".\cosmosconfig.json"))) //storing credentials outside web root 

    this.datasources = { 

        "local"= { 

            type="mongodb" 

        }, 

        "cosmos"= { 

            type="mongodb", 

            host="mongodb://" & this.cosmosconfig.host & "/?ssl=true&retrywrites=false", 

            "init": true, 

            "username": this.cosmosconfig.username, 

            "password": this.cosmosconfig.password 

        } 

    } 

}

cosmosconfig.json

{ 

    "host": "host:port", 

    "username": "username", 

    "password": "password", 

    "replicaSet": "globaldb" 

}

demo.cfm

<cfscript> 

    // Retrieve database 

    db = getmongoservice("cosmos").db("mydb") 

    collection = db.collection 

    collection.drop() 

    writeOutput("number of documents in the collection: <b>" & collection.count() & " </b><br/>") 

    writeOutput("<b> Insert a document </b><br/>") 

    // Insert many documents 

    res = collection.insertMany([ 

    { 

        enrollno: "1001", 

        name: "John Doe", 

        college: "Any college", 

        course: { 

            courseName: "Any course", 

            duration: "4 Years" 

        }, 

        address: { 

            city: "Any city", 

            state: "Any state", 

            country: "Any country" 

        } 

    }, 

    { 

        enrollno: "1002", 

        name: "Jane Doe", 

        college: "Some college", 

        course: { 

            courseName: "Some course", 

            duration: "4 Years" 

        }, 

        address: { 

            city: "Some city", 

            state: "Some state", 

            country: "Some country" 

    } 

    } 

    ]) 

    //count number of documents in the collection 

    writeOutput("number of documents in the collection: <b>" & collection.count() & " </b><br/>") 

    writeOutput("<b> Delete a document </b><br/>") 

    collection.deleteOne({name: MongoRegExp("Rushikesh Vekariya","i")}) 

    writeOutput("number of documents in the collection: <b>" & collection.count() & " </b><br/>") 

</cfscript>

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