Azure Cosmos DB Blog

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

Open-source developers rejoice! 🙌 PostgreSQL support and MongoDB enhancements announced at Ignite 2022

Microsoft Ignite 2022 kicked off with great news for fans of Azure Cosmos DB and open-source databases. In this morning's keynote address, CEO Satya Nadella announced the introduction of Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL. This new, generally available feature offers support for native, open-source PostgreSQL. It gives developers the scalability, ...

Distributed PostgreSQL comes to Azure Cosmos DB

Today, we’re excited to announce Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, a new Generally Available service to build cloud-native relational applications. This service brings developers the latest PostgreSQL features, allows you to start with a free trial, and scale out your database as your workload grows. With this announcement, Azure also ...

Azure Synapse Link support for Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API now in preview

Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin API combines the power of graph database algorithms with highly scalable, managed infrastructure to provide a unique, flexible solution to most common data problems associated with lack of flexibility and relational approaches. For more information, click here. (image) Use Cases The objective of this new ...

Join Us for Big News at Ignite 2022

(image)   Microsoft Ignite 2022 is fast approaching, and this year’s event is bringing a host of innovations around developer productivity and cost-effectiveness. The lineup of announcements includes big news around Azure Cosmos DB support for popular open-source technologies. Additionally, we’ll share improvements to our ...

Attention Developers: The Cloud-Scale Data for Spring Developers Quick Start Guide is Finally Here!

(image) Overview  The purpose of this developer's quick start guide is to help you build cloud-native Java applications in Azure. You’ll gain insights about using NoSQL and why you should consider Azure Cosmos DB, our fully managed, distributed NoSQL database service on Azure.  These insights are designed to be useful, starting with ...

Build and deploy containerized apps with Azure Kubernetes Service & Azure Cosmos DB

In today’s digital world, customers expect applications to be feature rich, tailored to their needs, and delivered quickly. For the modern-day business to survive and thrive, applications need to evolve quickly, scale fast and be highly resilient. Businesses need swift innovation through cloud-native architectures to meet these growing ...

IntelliJ support for Azure Cosmos DB!

We're excited to announce that the Azure ToolKit for IntelliJ plugin now includes support for Azure Cosmos DB! IntelliJ IDEA is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Java, Kotlin, Groovy, and other JVM-based languages. The Azure plugin allows Java developers to easily develop, configure, test, and deploy highly available and ...

Antipatterns on Azure Cosmos DB

This post was authored by Microsoft MVP and Azure Cosmos DB community champion Blaize Stewart.  You can reach Blaize (@theonemule) on Twitter. Software developers of all kinds love patterns. They give us reusable ideas that can be applied in many different contexts. We also have antipatterns: bad practices and habits that crop up enough ...

Load and visualize Covid-19 case data with the integrated Power BI experience

How have major cities like London and New York been affected by Covid-19 and how can we use historical data to explore how these effects might impact us in a post-Covid world?  This was the question posed at a Microsoft Data + AI Hackathon held in partnership with the University of Oxford and Observable HQ at the New York City Reactor Meetup ...