Azure Cosmos DB Blog

New date and time system functions in Azure Cosmos DB

Tim Sander October 1, 2020 Oct 1, 2020 10/1/20

Learn about new system functions for working with dates and times in Azure Cosmos DB

Data modeling, partitioning, and pricing in 2 minutes

Nikisha Reyes-Grange September 30, 2020 Sep 30, 2020 09/30/20

Build your NoSQL database for speed, scale, and performance with the right data modeling, partitioning, and pricing strategies. In under 2-minutes, these new videos will help guide your next application development project.

Optimizing bandwidth in the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK

Matias Quaranta September 24, 2020 Sep 24, 2020 09/24/20

Learn how to optimize the network bandwidth usage in your application by taking advantage of EnableContentResponseOnWrite to avoid getting unneeded content as part of your operations with the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK

Ignite 2020: New serverless and analytics capabilities announced

Nikisha Reyes-Grange September 22, 2020 Sep 22, 2020 09/22/20

Today, at Microsoft Ignite 2020, we announced new ways to run serverless workloads and bring the power of Azure Synapse Analytics to operational data in Azure Cosmos DB. These capabilities offer new possibilities for NoSQL developers and data analysts to power applications at any size or scale – from dev/test to production. You can explore ...

Bulk Updates with Optimistic Concurrency Control

Theo van Kraay September 15, 2020 Sep 15, 2020 09/15/20

How to support bulk updates in Azure Cosmos DB with Optimistic concurrency control. In this sample, we use Core (SQL) API to bulk update vertices in a graph hosted in Gremlin API!

Upgrade your server version from 3.2 to 3.6 for Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB

Luis Bosquez September 11, 2020 Sep 11, 2020 09/11/20

You can now upgrade your applicable MongoDB account to the latest version by using our automatic database upgrade process. The upgrade process doesn't interrupt the availability of your account and it doesn't consume RU/s or decrease the capacity of the database at any point. No existing data or indexes will be affected by this process. ...

Build fault tolerant applications with Cassandra API for Azure Cosmos DB

Abhishek Gupta September 10, 2020 Sep 10, 2020 09/10/20

Step-by-step guidance about how to build fault tolerant applications using the Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API with a custom retry policy for 429 errors.

Azure Cosmos DB for the SQL Professional – Referencing Tables

James Serra August 24, 2020 Aug 24, 2020 08/24/20

How should you handle reference tables that are common in the relational database world when working in Azure Cosmos DB? This post walks through some of the differences SQL professionals will encounter, and how developing in a Azure Cosmos DB environment compares to a relational database management service (RDBMS).

Azure Cosmos DB serverless now in preview

Thomas Weiss August 19, 2020 Aug 19, 2020 08/19/20

Azure Cosmos DB serverless is a new consumption-based offer that requires no capacity management. It bills only for the Request Units used by database operations and provides a lower entry price for development, testing and small applications with light traffic.

HttpClientFactory in the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK

Matias Quaranta August 19, 2020 Aug 19, 2020 08/19/20

In this post, learn about HTTPClientFactory and how you can use it to pool HTTP connections with Azure Cosmos DB clients.