Richa Gaur

Introducing Intra-Account Collection Copy in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

August 24th, 2023

Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database service, has always been at the forefront of empowering developers with innovative features and functionalities. In its pursuit of providing a seamless and efficient experience, Azure Cosmos DB recently announced the public preview of "Intra-Account Collection Copy" for ...

Introducing priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB (preview)

May 31st, 2023

The problem   Azure Cosmos DB is a fast and flexible database service that can handle massive amounts of data and scale elastically. However, sometimes you may encounter situations where your application sends more requests than the configured throughput (RU/s) of your container. In such cases, Azure Cosmos DB will throttle some of the ...

Deep dive: New elasticity features for better cost and performance

May 23rd, 2023

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 ...

Role-based access control in Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB: Now in preview

July 19th, 2022

Role based access control (RBAC) is a much-needed capability in any database for enterprises. It lets you simplify your access control mechanism without added management. We have introduced RBAC in Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB, which allows you to: Authorize your data requests with a fine-grained, role-based permission model Audit ...