Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Azure Cosmos DB SQL Studio is a Hidden Gem!

August 16, 2022 Aug 16, 2022 08/16/22

Jay Gordon

This post was authored by Microsoft MVP and Azure Cosmos DB community champion Hasan Savran.  You can reach Hasan (@SavranWeb) on Twitter.  Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API has many features that can help you with your cloud projects in Microsoft Azure. Most of these features; especially the new ones are at the SDK level, and you need to ...

Explore Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra’s new features

July 28, 2022 Jul 28, 2022 07/28/22

Theo van Kraay

At Microsoft Ignite last November, we announced the general availability of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, an Azure service that hosts open-source Apache Cassandra clusters, with automated deployment, scaling, and management operations all built into the service. In this blog, we give a quick recap of what this service has to ...

Monitor Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra using Dynatrace

July 21, 2022 Jul 21, 2022 07/21/22

Dileep Rao

There is now a new extension from Dynatrace that provides fully app-centric Cassandra performance monitoring for Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra. Monitor your clusters with Dynatrace Prometheus Extension Dynatrace Prometheus Extension allows you to monitor and analyze the activity of your Azure Managed Instance for Apache ...

Role-based access control in Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB: Now in preview

July 19, 2022 Jul 19, 2022 07/19/22

Richa Gaur

Role based access control (RBAC) is a much-needed capability in any database for enterprises. It lets you simplify your access control mechanism without added management. We have introduced RBAC in Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB, which allows you to: How does it work? API for MongoDB RBAC is built on concepts that are commonly ...

Run parallel CRUD operations with Python Async IO for Azure Cosmos DB

July 12, 2022 Jul 12, 2022 07/12/22

Khelan Modi

Async IO support for Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK, an important and much-anticipated capability, is now generally available (GA) for Python developers, data scientists, and any other professional that uses our Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK. Benefits Async IO support makes it easier to run multiple IO operations in parallel. The main advantage ...

Benchmarking Data Migration from Cassandra to Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API

June 28, 2022 Jun 28, 2022 06/28/22

Alp Kaya, Akash Shankaran

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...

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Introducing a new system function and optimized query operators

June 21, 2022 Jun 21, 2022 06/21/22

Justine Cocchi

The query engine in Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API now has a new system function and optimizations for a set of query operations to better use the index. In this post we’ll cover the new DateTimeBin function as well as improvements to GROUP BY, DISTINCT, OFFSET LIMIT, and JOIN. These example scenarios are for Contoso, a fictional online ...

Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft Build 2022 Review – Episode 45

June 13, 2022 Jun 13, 2022 06/13/22

Jay Gordon, Mark Brown

Welcome back!  We hope you enjoyed all the content and updates from the 2022 edition of Microsoft Build. Developers were able to watch and virtually attend over 500 different live sessions covering topics ranging from Java, Kubernetes, and Azure Cosmos DB, and more! Check out the video below for the full recap on the new and exciting features...

Simplified Write and Read Paths in the Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API

June 7, 2022 Jun 7, 2022 06/7/22

Abinav Rameesh

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed service which can be used as a backing data store for applications using Apache Cassandra, using the API for Cassandra. Built on top of Azure Cosmos DB, the Cassandra API provides scale, performance and availability guarantees while eliminating the operational overhead needed to manage Cassandra data. In ...

Announced at Microsoft Build: New features for scalable, cost-effective application development

May 24, 2022 May 24, 2022 05/24/22

Nikisha Reyes-Grange

Microsoft Build starts today and features exciting announcements about Azure Cosmos DB, along with demonstrations of new features and interactive sessions with members of our product team. We hope you’re able to join us live or on-demand. New features for developers to build and deploy scalable applications Azure Cosmos DB has been the ...