For years, “Database” and “Search systems" (think Elastic Search) lived in separate worlds. While both Databases and Search Systems operate in the same domain (storing, indexing and querying data), they prioritized different aspects. OLTP Databases prioritized Search Systems prioritized AI and Agents are...

In this blog, we'll discuss how Azure Cosmos DB is engineered for resilience and how it ensures high availability when failures happen in the cloud. Why does it matter ? The only thing that’s constant in distributed systems is failures. No cloud platform is immune to failures — from regional outages and transient network blips to human errors or...