Azure Cosmos DB Blog

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

Announcing the New Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool

Today we're excited to introduce a brand new Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool. You can find the new tool at https://github.com/AzureCosmosDB/data-migration-desktop-tool. Read more about it below and how to use it.   Some History The old Data Migration Tool (or DMT as it was known) was originally created in 2015 and had ...

Benchmarking Data Migration from Cassandra to Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API

About the authors:  Akash & Alp We are working with many customers who for a variety of reasons such as not having to deal with patching the O/S, upgrades, scalability, etc. are looking to move their Cassandra IaaS workloads to Azure and one of the destinations is Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API. We wanted to explore and dive deeper into...

Integrating Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API with Apache Kafka using Kafka Connect

Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API is a fully managed cloud service that is compatible with Cassandra Query Language (CQL) v3.11 API. It has no operational overhead and you can benefit from all the underlying Azure Cosmos DB capabilities such as global distribution, automatic scale out partitioning, availability and latency guarantees, encryption ...