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Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 7: Materialized View

February 20, 2024 Feb 20, 2024 02/20/24
Jay Gordon
We’re excited to present the seventh edition of our blog series, dedicated to exploring design patterns in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL applications. Drawing from real-world customer experiences, our aim is to help you navigate the intricacies of JSON-based NoSQL databases. In this chapter, we delve deeper into prevalent NoSQL patterns, perfect...

Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 6: Event Sourcing

February 6, 2024 Feb 6, 2024 02/6/24
Jay Gordon
We're excited to present the sixth edition of our blog series, dedicated to exploring design patterns in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL applications. Drawing from real-world customer experiences, our aim is to help you navigate the intricacies of JSON-based NoSQL databases. In this chapter, we delve deeper into prevalent NoSQL patterns, perfect for...

Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 3: Distributed counter

November 28, 2023 Nov 28, 2023 11/28/23
Jay Gordon
Over the years, customers have asked us for help in designing applications around specific scenarios they were trying to achieve. In some cases, these centered around implementing certain patterns using a JSON-based NoSQL database. Some of these patterns are very common in the NoSQL world, but not well understood by those new to NoSQL ...

Introducing Burstable Tier (M25) on Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

November 21, 2023 Nov 21, 2023 11/21/23
Sudhanshu Vishodia
(image) Introducing the new burstable cluster tier (M25) in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore, designed to cater to dynamic workloads with varying CPU usage patterns. Burstable SKUs provide an intelligent solution for small database workloads, offering minimal CPU performance during idle periods while seamlessly ramping up to full CPU ...

Announced at MS Ignite 2023: MongoDB vCore, free offer, Copilot, and more!

November 15, 2023 Nov 15, 2023 11/15/23
Michal Toiba
(image) Microsoft Ignite 2023 was abuzz with all things AI on opening day of the event – and the excitement continues! The show kicked off with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote on how Microsoft is creating new opportunities across platforms and solutions in the era of AI. Azure Cosmos DB is at the forefront of these solutions - ...

Announcing Dynamic Scaling Per Region and Per Partition for Azure Cosmos DB’s Autoscale

November 15, 2023 Nov 15, 2023 11/15/23
Tara Bhatia
We’re excited to announce dynamic scaling per region and per partition (public preview) for all new Azure Cosmos DB accounts to help optimize and lower costs for your workload! By default, Azure Cosmos DB autoscale scales workloads based on the most active region and partition. For non-uniform workloads that have different workload ...