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Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 6: Event Sourcing

February 6, 2024 Feb 6, 2024 02/6/24

Jay Gordon

We're excited to present the sixth edition of our blog series, dedicated to exploring design patterns in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL applications. Drawing from real-world customer experiences, our aim is to help you navigate the intricacies of JSON-based NoSQL databases. In this chapter, we delve deeper into prevalent NoSQL patterns, perfect for...

Azure Apache Cassandra® Engineer Nominated for Cassandra Catalyst Program

January 25, 2024 Jan 25, 2024 01/25/24

Theo van Kraay

What is the Catalyst program? The Cassandra Catalyst® Program is a prestigious initiative that recognizes individuals who are dedicated to the growth and success of the Apache Cassandra® community. German Eichberger, Principal Engineering Manager for Azure Managed Instances for Apache Cassandra, is a Catalyst who has demonstrated a deep...

Latest NoSQL Java Ecosystem Updates 2023 Q3 & Q4

January 18, 2024 Jan 18, 2024 01/18/24

Theo van Kraay

We're always busy adding new features, fixes, patches, and improvements to our Java-based client libraries for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. In this regular blog series, we share highlights of recent updates in the last period.   July - December 2023 updates     Spark 3.4 ...

Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 5: Document versioning

January 11, 2024 Jan 11, 2024 01/11/24

Jay Gordon

Welcome to part five of our series of blog posts focused on sharing common design patterns you can use to build applications with Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. Over the years, customers have asked us for help in designing applications around specific scenarios they were trying to achieve. In some cases, these centered around implementing certain ...

Best Practices for Re-modeling Graph database to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

January 8, 2024 Jan 8, 2024 01/8/24

Subhasish Ghosh, Faiz Chachiya, Sandeep S. Nair

Introduction Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's premier fully managed NoSQL database for modern app development. It is ideal for solutions including artificial intelligence, digital commerce, Internet of Things, booking management and other types of use cases. It offers single-digit millisecond response times, automatic and instant scalability ...

Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 4: Global distributed lock

January 4, 2024 Jan 4, 2024 01/4/24

Jay Gordon

Over the years, customers have asked us for help in designing applications around specific scenarios they were trying to achieve. In some cases, these centered around implementing certain patterns using a JSON-based NoSQL database. Some of these patterns are very common in the NoSQL world, but not well understood by those new to NoSQL ...

Call for Papers now open: Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2024

December 21, 2023 Dec 21, 2023 12/21/23

Jay Gordon

(image) We are thrilled to announce that the Call for Papers (CFP) for Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2024 is now officially open! This is an exciting opportunity for you to share your knowledge, experiences, and innovations with a vibrant and diverse community of developers. About the conference Azure Cosmos DB Conf is a free virtual developer ...

Scaling IoT/Time Series/Metering Workloads with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

December 19, 2023 Dec 19, 2023 12/19/23

Brian McKerr

Introduction : For many organizations around the world, the capture of consumption data is a common yet critical requirement. Some of these organizations struggle to manage the sheer volumes of data that they must capture and process. No wonder! We conservatively estimate that there would petabytes of such data globally and it is likely ...

Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 3: Distributed counter

November 28, 2023 Nov 28, 2023 11/28/23

Jay Gordon

Over the years, customers have asked us for help in designing applications around specific scenarios they were trying to achieve. In some cases, these centered around implementing certain patterns using a JSON-based NoSQL database. Some of these patterns are very common in the NoSQL world, but not well understood by those new to NoSQL ...

Introducing Burstable Tier (M25) on Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

November 21, 2023 Nov 21, 2023 11/21/23

Sudhanshu Vishodia

(image) Introducing the new burstable cluster tier (M25) in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore, designed to cater to dynamic workloads with varying CPU usage patterns. Burstable SKUs provide an intelligent solution for small database workloads, offering minimal CPU performance during idle periods while seamlessly ramping up to full CPU ...