Azure Cosmos DB Blog

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Getting started with Azure Cosmos DB – end to end example

September 9, 2021 Sep 9, 2021 09/9/21

Cyrille Visser

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.

Cost Optimized Metrics through Log Analytics

August 23, 2021 Aug 23, 2021 08/23/21

Abinav Rameesh

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 ...

Now Generally Available – Azure Cosmos DB Kafka Source & Sink Connectors

August 13, 2021 Aug 13, 2021 08/13/21

Abinav Rameesh

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

Now in private preview: optimize your data distribution with hierarchical partition keys

August 12, 2021 Aug 12, 2021 08/12/21

Deborah Chen

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 ...

A tour of Always Encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB

July 29, 2021 Jul 29, 2021 07/29/21

Santosh Kulkarni

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 ...

Using Azure Cosmos DB as an ASP.NET session state and caching provider

July 14, 2021 Jul 14, 2021 07/14/21

Matias Quaranta

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

Getting started with Kafka Connector for Azure Cosmos DB using Docker

July 6, 2021 Jul 6, 2021 07/6/21

Abhishek Gupta

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

Optimizing costs with the Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache

June 23, 2021 Jun 23, 2021 06/23/21

Tim Sander

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.