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Announced at MS Build 2023: Burst capacity, materialized views, vector search, and more!

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Michal Toiba

Microsoft Build 2023 kicked off today with exciting sessions and announcements lined up around AI, cloud development, cloud-scale innovation, developer productivity, and more. Azure Cosmos DB announced its own new additions and enhancements, enabling developers to further optimize costs, performance, and productivity. We also ...

Azure Cosmos DB at Build 2023: Everything you need to know

May 15, 2023 May 15, 2023 05/15/23

Michal Toiba

Build season is upon us again and we’ve got plenty of goodies in store. From a ton of new features that will make life easier for developers, to exciting sessions where Azure Cosmos DB will be the star of the show, you won’t want to miss the event. This year’s Build takes place May 23-25th and is happening both in-person at...

Highlights from Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2023!

March 30, 2023 Mar 30, 2023 03/30/23

Michal Toiba

Azure Cosmos DB Conf returned this year with the exciting launch of a new version of Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, and a variety of sessions on how to drive developer productivity, cloud-scale innovation, and cost savings with Azure Cosmos DB. Customers and partners such as Databricks, LinkedIn, and Cazton joined a host of Azure Cosmos DB ...

Latest NoSQL Java Ecosystem Updates 2022 Q3 & Q4

January 26, 2023 Jan 26, 2023 01/26/23

Theo van Kraay

We're always busy adding new features, fixes, patches, and improvements to our Java-based client libraries for Azure Cosmos DB API for NoSQL. In this regular blog series we'll share highlights of recent updates in the last period. June - December 2022 updates Spark 3.3 support ...

More IntelliJ support for Azure Cosmos DB!

November 15, 2022 Nov 15, 2022 11/15/22

Theo van Kraay

In September we announced that the Azure ToolKit for IntelliJ plugin now includes support for Azure Cosmos DB. Check out that blog here. This month, we've added more features! IntelliJ IDEA is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Java, Kotlin, Groovy, and other JVM-based languages. The Azure plugin allows Java developers to ...

The new Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty Certification is here!

March 11, 2022 Mar 11, 2022 03/11/22

Nikisha Reyes-Grange

The new Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty Certification is an important credential for developers who want to prove their skills in building scalable cloud-native applications with Azure Cosmos DB. Find free resources to help you prepare for - and pass! - the exam.

Financial services firm Jack Henry finds a reliable, fast database in Azure Cosmos DB

March 9, 2022 Mar 9, 2022 03/9/22

Mark Brown

Read about how Jack Henry has a found a scalable, reliable database in Azure Cosmos DB.

New developer productivity, cost-savings, and advanced analytics features announced at Microsoft Ignite

November 2, 2021 Nov 2, 2021 11/2/21

Nikisha Reyes-Grange

New features and capabilities for Azure Cosmos DB were announced today at Microsoft Ignite (November 2021). Read on for highlights and the schedule of events.