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Understand how to create your first Azure Cosmos DB implementation with this two-part series. From when and why to choose a NoSQL database to creating containers and selecting an API, follow this end-to-end example to walk through the steps you'll take to get started.

Azure Cosmos DB is designed for high throughput and low latency workloads, with the ability to serve millions of requests per second and billions of requests a day. In addition to seeking a scalable database that can serve massive volumes of traffic, users also look for granular server-side metrics for monitoring the health and performance of their...

Explore the architecture of the source and sink Apache Kafka Connectors for Azure Cosmos DB along with their popular areas of usage.

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 ...

Learn how to leverage Azure Cosmos DB as ASP.NET Session State provider and distributed cache by using the existing caching extension on your applications

This blog post is a getting started guide for the Kafka Connector for Azure Cosmos DB.

In this blog, we’ll dive into the details of the Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache! With the integrated cache, you can add caching to an existing Azure Cosmos DB workload without modifying your application’s logic.

Read on for Azure Cosmos DB updates at Microsoft Build 2021, including enhanced control, security, cost savings and speed.

Read on Azure Cosmos DB updates at Microsoft Build 2021, including the GA of serverless, expansion of the free tier and NEW Linux emulator.