Azure Cosmos DB Blog

The latest news, updates and technical insights from the Azure Cosmos DB team

Azure Cosmos DB: Powering the apps you use every day

July 11, 2023 Jul 11, 2023 07/11/23
Michal Toiba
Did you know that Azure Cosmos DB powers the apps you rely on every day? From the mobile app you use to order your coffee, to your communications methods at work, to your online shopping and news consumption, Azure Cosmos DB works behind the scenes to power the most popular apps and elastically scale them to meet demand. Here's how a ...

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...

Deep dive: New elasticity features for better cost and performance

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23
authorsDeborah 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
authorsRevin 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
authorsJames 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 ...