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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

May 19, 2023 May 19, 2023 05/19/23
Lucas Borges Fernandes
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

May 18, 2023 May 18, 2023 05/18/23
Jay Gordon
  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 ...

Azure Cosmos DB at Build 2023: Everything you need to know

May 15, 2023 May 15, 2023 05/15/23
Michal Toiba
  Build season is upon us again and we’ve got plenty of goodies in store. From a ton of new features that will make life easier for developers, to exciting sessions where Azure Cosmos DB will be the star of the show, you won’t want to miss the event. This year’s Build takes place May 23-25th and is happening both in-person at...