Azure Cosmos DB Blog

The latest news, updates and technical insights from the Azure Cosmos DB team

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

Theo van KraayMay 15, 2020May 15, 202005/15/20

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!

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

Theo van KraayDecember 2, 2019Dec 2, 201912/2/19

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

Theo van KraayNovember 21, 2019Nov 21, 201911/21/19

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.