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Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK v4 – Exploring the new Async API

March 25, 2020 Mar 25, 2020 03/25/20
Andy Feldman
In this second of our series for the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK v4 for Core (SQL) API, I’m going to explore our new Async API. To get you caught up though go check out the first post in this series Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK v4 - New Java SDK Quickstart Guide and Sample Code! Current users of our Java SDK v2 are familiar with our Sync API ...

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

March 19, 2020 Mar 19, 2020 03/19/20
Luis Bosquez
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 Private Link for Azure Cosmos DB now generally available

March 14, 2020 Mar 14, 2020 03/14/20
Thomas Weiss
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure Private Link for Azure Cosmos DB, making Azure Cosmos DB the next Azure service compatible with Azure Private Link. What is Azure Private Link Azure Private Link provides private connectivity from a virtual network to Azure platform as a service (PaaS) services. It simplifies the ...

Create a Java Azure Cosmos DB Function Trigger using Visual Studio Code in 2 minutes!

March 13, 2020 Mar 13, 2020 03/13/20
Theo van Kraay
  Creating event sourcing solutions with Azure Cosmos DB is easy with Azure Functions Triggers, where you can leverage the Change Feed Processor's powerful scaling and reliable event detection functionality, without the need to maintain any worker infrastructure. You can just focus on your Azure Function's logic without worrying about ...

Create a .NET Azure Cosmos DB Function Trigger using Visual Studio Code in 2 minutes!

March 11, 2020 Mar 11, 2020 03/11/20
Theo van Kraay
  Creating event sourcing solutions with Azure Cosmos DB is easy with Azure Functions Triggers, where you can leverage the Change Feed Processor's powerful scaling and reliable event detection functionality, without the need to maintain any worker infrastructure. You can just focus on your Azure Function's logic without worrying about ...

Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK v4 – New Java SDK Quickstart Guide and Sample Code!

March 9, 2020 Mar 9, 2020 03/9/20
Andy Feldman
The Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK for SQL API (hereafter “Java SDK”) provides support for Java applications with Azure Cosmos DB. Java SDK 4.0 General Availability is coming soon! To help customers prepare for this and take advantage of all the new great features, I'll be writing a series of blog posts around this as well as including ...

Build apps for free with Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier

March 6, 2020 Mar 6, 2020 03/6/20
Deborah Chen
With the new Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier, you’ll get the first 400 RU/s throughput and 5 GB storage in your account for free each month, for the lifetime of the account. That means that you can start small and grow with confidence, knowing your app will be running on a high-performance database service.

Migrating Relational Data into Azure Cosmos DB using Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks

March 5, 2020 Mar 5, 2020 03/5/20
Tonio Lora
Organizations migrating relational data to Azure Cosmos DB meet different challenges, from moving large amounts of data, to performing the transformations required to properly store the data in a format that will provide the performance required. The first step on this type of migrations is to come up with the non-relational model that will ...