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

Build 2020 Recap: What’s new in Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB?

Luis BosquezJune 2, 2020Jun 2, 202006/2/20

It's that time of the year again! The entirety of Microsoft has been working hard this past semester to bring you new features and functionality, and the Azure Cosmos DB is no exception. The Cosmic team has worked hard to deliver disruptive new functionality that goes from automatically scaling your database capacity to expanding the Jupyte

Getting started with Azure Cosmos DB using API for MongoDB and Rust

Gurpreet SinghApril 29, 2020Apr 29, 202004/29/20

Rust is becoming increasingly popular both externally and internally at Microsoft due to its performance and safety, especially safe concurrency. In this tutorial, we are going to be writing a Rust application to perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on data using Azure Cosmos DB's API for MongoDB. Prerequisites:

Native Mongo shell on Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB now in preview

Luis BosquezMarch 19, 2020Mar 19, 202003/19/20

We are happy to announce the preview release for native Mongo shell v3.6.8 on the Data Explorer for Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB! This will provide you with the native Mongo shell capabilities for database management and CRUD operations. This is available in your Data Explorer either in the Azure Portal or in its stand-alone version.

Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB now supports server version 3.6

Sri ChintalaNovember 6, 2019Nov 6, 201911/6/19

What is Azure Cosmos DB? Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service that enables you to read and write data from any Azure region. It offers turnkey global distribution,guarantees single-digit millisecond latency at the 99th percentile, 99.999 percent high availability, with elastic scaling of throughput and