The new Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty Certification is an important credential for developers who want to prove their skills in building scalable cloud-native applications with Azure Cosmos DB. Find free resources to help you prepare for - and pass! - the exam.
We are very excited to announce that Azure Cosmos DB Conf is returning, April 19-20, 2022. Azure Cosmos DB Conf is a free, 24-hour virtual developer event co-organized by Microsoft and the Azure Cosmos DB community. This is our second Azure Cosmos DB Conf. Sessions will be a combination of Microsoft and community delivered. The event will run as...
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.
We are excited to announce that Azure Cosmos DB now has GA support for Glowroot for its Cassandra API. This allows users of Azure Cosmos DB’s Cassandra API to get all the benefits of using Glowroot. While for Glowroot users an additional benefit of having fully managed Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API.
New features and capabilities for Azure Cosmos DB were announced today at Microsoft Ignite (November 2021). Read on for highlights and the schedule of events.
Support for custom partitioning in Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB was announced in preview at Microsoft Ignite. This capability improves query performance by enabling you to partition Azure Cosmos DB analytical store data using keys that are frequently used as query filters.
To help customers better manage and control their database operations budgets, a new provisioned throughput spending limit feature was announced at Microsoft Ignite and is now generally available.
Check out the new partial document update feature for Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API, announced at Microsoft Ignite. This feature makes it possible to use the Java, .NET, and Node.js SDKs to perform path-level updates to specific fields/properties in a single document without needing to perform a full document read-replace operation.
Hierarchical partition keys are now available in private preview for the Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API. With hierarchical partition keys, also known as sub-partitioning, you can now natively partition your container with up to three levels of partition keys. This enables more optimal partitioning strategies for multi-tenant scenarios or workloads ...
Always encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB provides encryption support on the client-side to protect sensitive data by encrypting data such as credit card numbers or national identification numbers, before it gets transferred over the wire to be stored in Azure Cosmos DB. Always encrypted allows clients to protect JSON property values which are deemed se...
