Gahl Levy, Author at Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Gahl Levy Principal PM Manager: Gahl has spent the last decade of his career working on databases and cloud infrastructure. He’s responsible for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. Gahl earned an MBA from UC Berkeley with highest honors and a B.S. in Computer Science from UCSC. Gahl grew up in the SF Bay Area and lives in NYC.

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Introducing Integrated Vector Database in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

May 23rd, 2023

(image) We are thrilled to announce the release of Integrated Vector Database 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-...

Test mongo vcore

May 17th, 2023

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore helps developers build intelligent apps in the cloud

March 27th, 2023

Building intelligent applications such as chatbots, recommendation systems, and other transactional workloads are at the top of developers’ to-do lists, thanks to the explosive growth of AI for building cost-effective and engaging ways to interact with customers. A high-performance intelligent application requires a data strategy that can ...

Bigger and more secure: new features for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

October 12th, 2022

During Microsoft Ignite 2022, we announced new, generally available (GA) features in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB that enhance security, auditability, and document size flexibility. How to get started? RBAC and 16MB documents can be enabled on new and existing Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB accounts. Keep in mind that when RBAC and/...

Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB v4.2 Is Here – Three Reasons to Upgrade Now

February 28th, 2022

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB version 4.2! New aggregation functionality and improved security features, all built on the most scalable database platform make this the best release yet. For a full list of supported features, please read the documentation.

Async IO for the Python SDK is now in preview!

December 16th, 2021

Async IO support for Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK, an important and much-anticipated capability, is now available in preview! Async IO is a concurrent programming method in Python that makes running CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations in parallel easy to do.

Use Indexes for blazing-fast queries on your API for MongoDB Data

October 6th, 2021

What’s better than faster queries – how about an order of magnitude faster queries? That’s what indexes do in the API for MongoDB. Let’s dive into the three things that are most important for MongoDB developers to know about indexing when building their applications on the API for MongoDB.