Theo van Kraay

Now in preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra

March 2nd, 2021

Today at Microsoft Ignite, we announced Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra in public preview. Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra provides the ability to provision managed native Apache Cassandra clusters, with automated deployment and scaling operations, accelerating hybrid scenarios and reducing ongoing maintenance. Why...

Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API serverless now in preview!

November 12th, 2020

Azure Cosmos DB serverless is now available for the Cassandra API. Get an overview of this new option, a walk-through on getting started, and tips for choosing between serverless and provisioned throughput for your database operations.

Bulk Updates with Optimistic Concurrency Control

September 15th, 2020

How to support bulk updates in Azure Cosmos DB with Optimistic concurrency control. In this sample, we use Core (SQL) API to bulk update vertices in a graph hosted in Gremlin API!

Now in preview: Use the native Cassandra shell on Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API!

May 15th, 2020

We have released support to run the native Cassandra shell (CQLSH) v5.0.1 on the Data Explorer for Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API accounts!

How to change your partition key in Azure Cosmos DB

April 27th, 2020

Searching for how to change your partition key in Azure Cosmos DB? You have come to the right place! Learn how to achieve this by leveraging Change Feed and Bulk Execution features in Azure Cosmos DB to live migrate containers.

Create a Java Azure Cosmos DB Function Trigger using Visual Studio Code in 2 minutes!

March 13th, 2020

  Creating event sourcing solutions with Azure Cosmos DB is easy with Azure Functions Triggers, where you can leverage the Change Feed Processor's powerful scaling and reliable event detection functionality, without the need to maintain any worker infrastructure. You can just focus on your Azure Function's logic without worrying about ...

Create a .NET Azure Cosmos DB Function Trigger using Visual Studio Code in 2 minutes!

March 11th, 2020

  Creating event sourcing solutions with Azure Cosmos DB is easy with Azure Functions Triggers, where you can leverage the Change Feed Processor's powerful scaling and reliable event detection functionality, without the need to maintain any worker infrastructure. You can just focus on your Azure Function's logic without worrying about ...

Migrating Relational Data with one-to-few relationships into Azure Cosmos DB SQL API

December 10th, 2019

A worked through sample for migrating relational data with one-to-few relationships into Azure Cosmos DB SQL API.

Announcing: Change Feed support for Azure Cosmos DB’s Cassandra API

December 2nd, 2019

Azure Cosmos DB now has GA support for Change Feed for its Cassandra API. This now allows users of Azure Cosmos DB's Cassandra API to get the same great advantages of using Change Feed as enjoyed by users of SQL (Core) API and MongoDB API. What is Change Feed? Azure Cosmos DB's Change Feed is a persistent log of documents within a container...

Announcing Live Data Migration from Cassandra to Azure Cosmos DB

November 21st, 2019

We are excited to announce the ability to live migrate data from Apache Cassandra to Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API account. This allows you to migrate on-premises Cassandra workloads to Azure with minimum downtime.