Azure Cosmos DB Blog

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

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 ...

Announcing: Change Feed support for Azure Cosmos DB’s Cassandra API

December 2, 2019 Dec 2, 2019 12/2/19
Theo van Kraay
Azure Cosmos DB now has GA support for Change Feed for its Cassandra API. This now allows users of Azure Cosmos DB's Cassandra API to get the same great advantages of using Change Feed as enjoyed by users of SQL (Core) API and MongoDB API. What is Change Feed? Azure Cosmos DB's Change Feed is a persistent log of documents within a container...