Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Distributed PostgreSQL benchmarks using HammerDB, by GigaOM

June 21, 2023 Jun 21, 2023 06/21/23

Marco Slot

Distributed PostgreSQL has become a hot topic. Several distributed database vendors have added support for the PostgreSQL protocol as a convenient way to gain access to the PostgreSQL ecosystem. Others (like us) have built a distributed database on top of PostgreSQL itself. For the Citus database team, distributed PostgreSQL is primarily ...

Latest features in Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra

June 20, 2023 Jun 20, 2023 06/20/23

Theo van Kraay

Are you self-hosting open-source Apache Cassandra on-premises or in the cloud? What if you could have patching, deployment, scaling, platform security, cloud infrastructure, and live site support taken care of for you... for not much more than the cost of running virtual machines in the public cloud? Welcome to Azure Managed Instance for ...

Announcing Vercel and Azure Cosmos DB Integration

June 13, 2023 Jun 13, 2023 06/13/23

Sajeetharan Sinnathurai

We are excited to announce the public preview of the Vercel and Azure Cosmos DB integration. This new integration improves productivity as developers can now easily create Vercel applications with an Azure Cosmos DB database already configured. With this integration, developers can transform their creative ideas into reality in real-time...

Introducing priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB (preview)

May 31, 2023 May 31, 2023 05/31/23

Richa Gaur

The problem   Azure Cosmos DB is a fast and flexible database service that can handle massive amounts of data and scale elastically. However, sometimes you may encounter situations where your application sends more requests than the configured throughput (RU/s) of your container. In such cases, Azure Cosmos DB will throttle some of the ...

Deep dive: New elasticity features for better cost and performance

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Deborah Chen, Richa Gaur, Tara Bhatia

Over the years, we’ve heard feedback from many you that you’d like more flexibility in how Azure Cosmos DB handles scaling and partitioning. Based on your feedback, we are excited to announce the general availability of three key features - burst capacity, hierarchical partition keys, and serverless container storage of 1 TB – to help ...

Unlocking the power of Time-Travel in Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Revin Chalil, Rodrigo Souza

Azure Synapse Link now offers time-travel capabilities for Azure Cosmos DB data supporting NoSQL and MongoDB APIs. This exciting feature, currently available in public preview through Azure Synapse Spark, enables you to access Azure Cosmos DB data in the analytical store, precisely as it appeared at specific points in time in history (down to ...

Announced at MS Build 2023: Burst capacity, materialized views, vector search, and more!

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Michal Toiba

  Microsoft Build 2023 kicked off today with exciting sessions and announcements lined up around AI, cloud development, cloud-scale innovation, developer productivity, and more. Azure Cosmos DB announced its own new additions and enhancements, enabling developers to further optimize costs, performance, and productivity. We also ...

Introducing Vector Search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

James Codella, Gahl Levy

We are thrilled to announce the release of Vector Search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore, which will be showcased at Microsoft Build. This innovative feature opens a world of new opportunities for building intelligent AI-powered applications and makes Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore the first among MongoDB-compatible offerings to ...

Announcing Materialized Views for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL (Preview)

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Abhinav Tripathi

When designing an application using Azure Cosmos DB, users are required to select a Partition Key from among the properties stored for each item, and the value in the Partition Key is used to scale out their data. Users can avoid costly cross partition queries by correctly using the Partition Key in their queries but in many cases, it can be ...

Real time data processing with new Azure Cosmos DB change feed modes

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Justine Cocchi

The Azure Cosmos DB change feed allows applications to seamlessly react to real time changes to data! It’s a persistent record of changes to items in your container in the order they occurred. Instead of writing complex code to query recently modified documents, manually track checkpointing, and handle retries for errors in processing, the ...