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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 ...

Introducing the General Availability of Vector Search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore!

November 15, 2023 Nov 15, 2023 11/15/23
authorsKhelan Modi, James Codella
(image) We’re thrilled to share the exciting news that Vector Search 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 MongoDB vCore ...

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 ...

Configure customer-managed keys for your existing Azure Cosmos DB accounts!

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23
Dileep Rao
(image) Encryption options for data at rest on Azure Cosmos DB that is available today. Azure Cosmos DB strives to provide the best-in-class security features. Encryption of data at rest is one such important security feature. Encryption of data at rest using Microsoft's service-managed keys is enabled by default. In addition to this ...

Introducing Text Indexes in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

August 10, 2023 Aug 10, 2023 08/10/23
Sudhanshu Vishodia
In the realm of modern databases, efficient querying of text-based data is pivotal to deliver smooth user experiences and provide valuable insights from textual content. To address this need, Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore now offers text indexing. In this blog, we'll delve into the ins and outs of text indexes in Azure Cosmos DB for ...

Announcing Vercel and Azure Cosmos DB Integration

June 13, 2023 Jun 13, 2023 06/13/23
Sajeetharan Sinnathurai
We are excited to announce the public preview of the Vercel and Azure Cosmos DB integration. This new integration improves productivity as developers can now easily create Vercel applications with an Azure Cosmos DB database already configured. With this integration, developers can transform their creative ideas into reality in real-time...

Announcing Materialized Views for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL (Preview)

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23
Abhinav Tripathi
When designing an application using Azure Cosmos DB, users are required to select a Partition Key from among the properties stored for each item, and the value in the Partition Key is used to scale out their data. Users can avoid costly cross partition queries by correctly using the Partition Key in their queries but in many cases, it can be ...

Performance Improvements in Azure Cosmos DB Kafka Connector

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23
authorsRicky Diep, Marcelo Fonseca, Sergiy Smyrnov
Overview Azure Cosmos DB Kafka connector had been updated recently and several new features were delivered as part of the v1.6.0 release based on the feedback and requirements of several customers implementing it as part of their application modernization journey. In this blog post – I will share details about those improvements and ...