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

Highlights from Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2023!

March 30, 2023 Mar 30, 2023 03/30/23
Michal Toiba
Azure Cosmos DB Conf returned this year with the exciting launch of a new version of Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, and a variety of sessions on how to drive developer productivity, cloud-scale innovation, and cost savings with Azure Cosmos DB. Customers and partners such as Databricks, LinkedIn, and Cazton joined a host of Azure Cosmos DB ...

Now in preview – Change Data Capture (CDC) with Azure Cosmos DB analytical store

March 30, 2023 Mar 30, 2023 03/30/23
authorsRevin Chalil, Anitha Adusumilli, Rodrigo Souza
Azure Cosmos DB analytical store now supports Change Data Capture (CDC), for Azure Cosmos DB API for NoSQL and Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB. This capability, available in public preview, allows you to efficiently consume a continuous and incremental feed of changed (inserted, updated, and deleted) data from analytical store. CDC is ...

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore helps developers build intelligent apps in the cloud

March 27, 2023 Mar 27, 2023 03/27/23
Gahl Levy
Building intelligent applications such as chatbots, recommendation systems, and other transactional workloads are at the top of developers’ to-do lists, thanks to the explosive growth of AI for building cost-effective and engaging ways to interact with customers. A high-performance intelligent application requires a data strategy that can ...

Announcing the New Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool

March 23, 2023 Mar 23, 2023 03/23/23
Mark Brown
Today we're excited to introduce a brand new Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool. You can find the new tool at https://github.com/AzureCosmosDB/data-migration-desktop-tool. Read more about it below and how to use it.   Some History The old Data Migration Tool (or DMT as it was known) was originally created in 2015 and had ...

Build Intelligent Applications using ChatGPT & Azure Cosmos DB

March 22, 2023 Mar 22, 2023 03/22/23
authorsMark Brown, Sandeep S. Nair
"Cosmos DB is the go-to database powering the world’s most demanding workloads at any scale. OpenAI relies on Cosmos DB to dynamically scale their ChatGPT service – one of the fastest-growing consumer apps ever – enabling high reliability and low maintenance." - Satya Nadella, Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer As...

Announcing Data API builder for Azure Cosmos DB

March 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023 03/15/23
Sajeetharan Sinnathurai
We are super excited to announce the public preview of Data API builder. A new feature that allows customers to instantly and securely build a GraphQL API for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL and Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.   A quick look at Data API Builder  With Data API Builder, database objects can be exposed via REST or GraphQL ...

Enabling real-time dashboards: Power BI DirectQuery mode and Dataflows support in Azure Cosmos DB

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23
authorsRodrigo Souza, Revin Chalil
The Azure Cosmos DB V2 Connector for Power BI, with support for querying the Azure Cosmos DB transactional store in both DirectQuery and Import modes, is now in preview. The new V2 connector also supports Azure Cosmos DB as a data source in Power BI dataflows. It’s available now on Power BI components including Desktop, Power BI service, ...

Azure Cosmos DB – for startups too

March 9, 2023 Mar 9, 2023 03/9/23
Michal Toiba
  Azure Cosmos DB is a fully-managed, distributed database known for its automatic and instant scalability, guaranteed business continuity with SLA-backed availability, and security for applications of any size or scale. While these are enterprise-level capabilities – ensuring that the most business-critical apps have the ...

Save the Date for Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2023!

March 1, 2023 Mar 1, 2023 03/1/23
Ricky Diep
  Overview  Save the date and get ready for Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2023! Azure Cosmos DB Conf is a FREE virtual developer event happening on March 28th, 2023, organized by Microsoft with support from the greater Azure Cosmos DB community. During the event, you'll learn about the latest innovations in Azure Cosmos DB, a fully ...