Azure Cosmos DB Blog
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Are you up for the Azure Cosmos DB Cloud Skills Challenge!?
The Azure Cosmos DB Developer Cloud Skills Challenge is here! This is a chance to expand your knowledge of Azure Cosmos DB on the road to certification. The challenge helps developers DP-420 Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB certification. You’ll also receive 50% off certification testing if you complete the challenge within 30 days. What will I learn along the way? The agenda of the learning path consists of several modules that focus on a developer’s journey into Azure Cosmos DB. Let’s explore a few of the big ideas you’ll learn in the Cloud Skills Challenge....
News: Postgres 15 available in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Big news from the Postgres and Citus team here at Microsoft! Just 1 week after PostgreSQL 15 was released, PostgreSQL 15 GA is generally available in the portal for the Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL managed service—in all Azure regions. Whether you need to provision new clusters in Azure Cosmos DB for Postgres—or upgrade your existing database clusters—Postgres 15 is now a choice for you. Oh, and you can upgrade your existing cluster to Postgres 15 from any of the other supported major Postgres versions, using the in-place major version upgrade feature. The PostgreSQL 15 release of what many people fondly cal...
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, flexibility, and performance of Azure Cosmos DB, while taking advantage of PostgreSQL’s ACID compliance, rich SQL querying capabilities, and wide range of community extensions. It also makes it faster and easier to develop cloud-native applications such as multi-tenant SaaS ...
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 becomes the first cloud provider to offer its own single database service that supports both relational and NoSQL workloads. You can now build cloud-native applications for relational and non-relational data using the familiar Azure Cosmos DB database. This blog post provides a ...
Bigger and more secure: new features for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
During Microsoft Ignite 2022, we announced new, generally available (GA) features in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB that enhance security, auditability, and document size flexibility. How to get started? RBAC and 16MB documents can be enabled on new and existing Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB accounts. Keep in mind that when RBAC and/or 16MB documents are enabled, the feature cannot be disabled. Option 1. Azure Portal RBAC and 16MB documents can be enabled in the Azure Portal. Navigate to the features tab, click on RBAC and/or 16MB documents, and click enable. Option 2. Programmatically RB...
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. Use Cases The objective of this new capability is to unlock Graph Analytics workloads, so that customers can analyze the relationships between their graph entities. Typical use cases are social networks, recommendation engines, Customer 365, telecommunications networks, supply-chain , and IoT. For more information, click here....
Join Us for Big News at Ignite 2022
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 MongoDB support, providing increased ease-of-use and security to MongoDB developers. Join us virtually to hear from Microsoft leadership, product experts, and thought leaders across live keynotes, expert meet ups, and more. Virtual sessions are free, and anyone can register. Wedne...
Attention Developers: The Cloud-Scale Data for Spring Developers Quick Start Guide is Finally Here!
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 a NoSQL background or coming into a project with a relational mindset. Data isn’t the only thing involved in an application, and this guide will take you through working with other Azure services that integrate well with Azure Cosmos DB. You’ll learn how to host Java applications in...
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 customer expectations. Challenges Developers Face Modern Application Development approach Modern application development enables developers to innovate rapidly by using cloud-native architectures with loosely coupled microservices. It is the chosen method to build an...