Announcements

Join Us for Big News at Ignite 2022

September 30, 2022 Sep 30, 2022 09/30/22

Michal Toiba

Microsoft Ignite 2022 is fast approaching, and this year’s event is bringing a host of innovations around developer productivity and cost-effectiveness. The lineup of announcements includes big news around Azure Cosmos DB support for popular open-source technologies. Additionally, we’ll share improvements to our MongoDB ...

Announcing Materialized Views for Azure Cosmos DB API for Cassandra Preview

September 5, 2022 Sep 5, 2022 09/5/22

Dileep Rao

Data modeling in the NoSQL world is driven by data access patterns. There are scenarios where it makes sense to duplicate data into multiple separate tables depending on the read/write pattern. This is even more important when you want to access the same information using different unique identifiers (not restricted to only the primary key...

Announcing General Availability of Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache

August 31, 2022 Aug 31, 2022 08/31/22

Justine Cocchi

Reduce costs and latency for read-heavy workloads with Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache, an in-memory cache that’s now generally available. In addition to increasing speed and decreasing costs, adding an integrated cache simplifies your architecture and application complexity, allowing you to focus on building your business logic. The ...

Intra-account container copy jobs for Core (SQL) and Cassandra API accounts (Preview)

August 30, 2022 Aug 30, 2022 08/30/22

Shweta Nayak

Announcing the preview for Intra-account container copy jobs. This functionality helps create offline copies of containers for Azure Cosmos DB for both Core (SQL) API and Cassandra API using Azure CLI. When to use The container copy feature for Azure Cosmos DB is helpful for the following scenarios: Steps to use ...

Explore Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra’s new features

July 28, 2022 Jul 28, 2022 07/28/22

Theo van Kraay

At Microsoft Ignite last November, we announced the general availability of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, an Azure service that hosts open-source Apache Cassandra clusters, with automated deployment, scaling, and management operations all built into the service. In this blog, we give a quick recap of what this service has to ...

Introducing a new system function and optimized query operators

June 21, 2022 Jun 21, 2022 06/21/22

Justine Cocchi

The query engine in Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API now has a new system function and optimizations for a set of query operations to better use the index. In this post we’ll cover the new DateTimeBin function as well as improvements to GROUP BY, DISTINCT, OFFSET LIMIT, and JOIN. These example scenarios are for Contoso, a fictional online ...

Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft Build 2022 Review – Episode 45

June 13, 2022 Jun 13, 2022 06/13/22

Jay Gordon, Mark Brown

Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed all the content and updates from the 2022 edition of Microsoft Build. Developers were able to watch and virtually attend over 500 different live sessions covering topics ranging from Java, Kubernetes, and Azure Cosmos DB, and more! Check out the video below for the full recap on the new and exciting features...

Announced at Microsoft Build: New features for scalable, cost-effective application development

May 24, 2022 May 24, 2022 05/24/22

Nikisha Reyes-Grange

Microsoft Build starts today and features exciting announcements about Azure Cosmos DB, along with demonstrations of new features and interactive sessions with members of our product team. We hope you’re able to join us live or on-demand. New features for developers to build and deploy scalable applications Azure Cosmos DB has been the ...

Join Us! Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft Build 2022

May 13, 2022 May 13, 2022 05/13/22

Ricky Diep

Find out what's new in the world of Azure Cosmos DB directly from our team at Microsoft Build 2022. We will be introducing new features that enable developers to build scalable, cost-effective cloud-native applications with ease. Join senior leadership, program managers, and engineers for live sessions, roundtable discussions, and much ...

Register now for Azure Cosmos DB Conf on April 19 – 20

April 6, 2022 Apr 6, 2022 04/6/22

Mark Brown

Azure Cosmos DB Conf, our free, virtual developer event, returns April 19-20. The event will include three, 3-hour live streams in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Australia, and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Each live stream will feature its own unique, region-specific content that will be created and delivered by local members of the ...

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