title: Azure DocumentDb Storage Limits - what exactly do they mean?
body: <p>Azure DocumentDb seems to have <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/documentdb-limits/" rel="noreferrer">some strange storage limits</a>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>--------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Entity                           | Default quota (Standard Offer)|
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  | Document storage per collection  | 250 GB*                       |
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  | Throughput per collection,       | 250,000 RU/s*                 |
  | measured in Request Units per    |                               |
  | second per collection            |                               |
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  | Request document size            | 512 KB*                       |
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  | Response document size           | 1MB                           |
  -------------------------------------------------------------------|
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Request document size - Does that mean that the size of the json payload that gets sent for storage in the documentdb can't be bigger than 512KB without a request to support?</p>
  
  <p>Also, if a request to support is made for a larger request document size, what are the limits on that? Can I ask for 1MB? 2MB?</p>
  
  <p>Response document size - Does that mean that the size of the json response can't exceed 1MB? That hardly seems useful for anything but the simplest entities.</p>