Deep dive: New elasticity features for better cost and performance

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

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 ...

Introducing Vector Search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

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)

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

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 ...

Auto scaling Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL with Citus, Grafana, & Azure Functions

One of the top Citus features is the ability to run PostgreSQL at any scale, on a single node as well as a distributed database cluster. As your application needs to scale, you can add more nodes to the Citus cluster, rebalance existing data to the new Postgres nodes, and seamlessly scale out. However, these operations require manual ...

Register Now for Azure Cosmos DB North America Roadshow Events

  The world of technology is rapidly evolving, and so are the tools we use to interact with it. As more organizations and developers look to leverage the power of AI and build intelligent applications with cloud scale databases, Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB stands as a beacon, offering unmatched scalability, performance, and ...