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Optimize Your Azure Cosmos DB Costs with New Reserved Capacity Tiers

April 11, 2024 Apr 11, 2024 04/11/24
Rodrigo Souza
Commit to a reservation for Azure Cosmos DB resources using Azure Cosmos DB reserved capacity to save money.  Starting with our new 100 RU/s option, any customer can now reduce costs using Azure Cosmos DB request units (RU/s). You can buy any quantity of the 100 RU/s reservation, at any time.  There is no limit to the number of reservations...

Now in public preview: Mirroring Azure Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric

March 26, 2024 Mar 26, 2024 03/26/24
authorsAnitha Adusumilli, Revin Chalil, Jilene Maldonado
This blog is co-authored by Rodrigo Souza. We are excited to announce that mirroring Azure Cosmos DB databases in Microsoft Fabric is now available to all customers. You can seamlessly bring your databases into Microsoft OneLake, enabling no-ETL, near real-time insights on your data. Many organizations want to transform their businesses by ...

MongoDB to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL Migration – Learnings from Java SDK V4 Micro-Optimizations

February 22, 2024 Feb 22, 2024 02/22/24
authorsSubhasish Ghosh, Theo van Kraay
The authors wish to thank Govind Kanshi (Principal PM Manager), Abinav Rameesh (Principal PM Manager), Kushagra Thapar (Principal Engineering Manager), Annie Liang (Sr. Software Engineer) and Faiz Chachiya (Sr. Cloud Solution Architect, CSU) for their valuable insights, and contributions during the Proof-of-Concept (PoC). Introduction  ...

Best Practices for Re-modeling Graph database to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

January 8, 2024 Jan 8, 2024 01/8/24
authorsSubhasish Ghosh, Faiz Chachiya, Sandeep S. Nair
Introduction Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's premier fully managed NoSQL database for modern app development. It is ideal for solutions including artificial intelligence, digital commerce, Internet of Things, booking management and other types of use cases. It offers single-digit millisecond response times, automatic and instant scalability ...

What’s New for Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra at Microsoft Ignite 2023: Building the Next Generation of AI Apps

November 15, 2023 Nov 15, 2023 11/15/23
authorsRicky Diep, Theo van Kraay
(image)   Get ready for Microsoft Ignite 2023, where we'll be unveiling exciting new features and enhancements for Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra. With the introduction of vector search, turnkey major version upgrades, turnkey replication for multi-region clusters, turnkey hybrid cluster setup for live migrations, and ...

Integrated Vector Database in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore is Generally Available!

November 15, 2023 Nov 15, 2023 11/15/23
authorsKhelan Modi, James Codella
(image) We’re thrilled to share the exciting news that the integrated vector database is now officially available to all users of Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore. This groundbreaking feature paves the way for a multitude of fresh opportunities in the realm of secure and resilient AI-driven applications while making Azure Cosmos DB for ...

Introducing Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore: Now Generally Available!

November 15, 2023 Nov 15, 2023 11/15/23
Khelan Modi
We're thrilled to announce that following a successful public preview, Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore has officially launched and is now available for all users! This marks a significant achievement in our quest to provide our users with a robust, seamlessly integrated, and fully-managed database solution tailored for their MongoDB ...

Announcing Azure Cosmos DB custom routing endpoints for Azure IoT Hub – GA

October 5, 2023 Oct 5, 2023 10/5/23
Usha Rathnavel
We are very happy to announce the general availability for Azure Cosmos DB custom routing endpoints for Azure IoT Hub. Many IoT solutions require extensive downstream data analysis. You have to seamlessly push the data into hyperscale databases quickly. For example, intelligent transport systems have a constant inflow of a continuous stream...

Postgres 16 available in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, powered by Citus

September 30, 2023 Sep 30, 2023 09/30/23
Nik Larin
Big news in the Postgres world: PostgreSQL 16 was released just over 2 weeks ago. And today we're announcing that Postgres 16 is generally available for production workloads on Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL. That’s right, in production: this announcement is not just a preview of Postgres 16 support.  Whether you need to ...