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

Role-based access control with Azure AD now in preview

March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

Thomas Weiss

Role-based access controls are now in public preview for Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API. They offer fine-grained control over permissions and add a new layer of security to your databases.

Creating Mobile Applications with Azure Cosmos DB and React Native

November 19, 2020 Nov 19, 2020 11/19/20

Jason Amos

A step-by-step guide to building a mobile application with Azure Cosmos DB and React Native.

Now in preview – Support for Synapse SQL serverless in Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB

October 28, 2020 Oct 28, 2020 10/28/20

Ramnandan Krishnamurthy

Azure Synapse Link now supports querying Azure Cosmos DB data using Synapse SQL serverless. This capability, available in public preview, allows you to use familiar analytical T-SQL queries and build powerful near real-time BI dashboards on Azure Cosmos DB data.

Azure Cosmos DB Repository .NET SDK v.1.0.4

October 7, 2020 Oct 7, 2020 10/7/20

David Pine

David Pine shares the unofficial Azure Cosmos DB Repository .NET SDK. The repository SDK aims to simplify the consumption of Azure Cosmos DB by abstracting away some of the complexities of the existing .NET SDK and exposes a modern generic repository pattern-based interface.

Data modeling, partitioning, and pricing in 2 minutes

September 30, 2020 Sep 30, 2020 09/30/20

Nikisha Reyes-Grange

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.

Azure Cosmos DB serverless now in preview

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

Thomas Weiss

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

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

Matias Quaranta

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

Autoscale + serverless: new offers to fit any workload

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

Deborah Chen

Azure Cosmos DB is excited to announce two new offers: autoscale provisioned throughput (GA) and the upcoming preview of serverless. These offers complement our existing standard (manual) provisioned throughput and ensure that Azure Cosmos DB is, more than ever, a database that delivers the best cost and performance for any kind of workload.

Migrate relational data into Azure Cosmos DB using Azure Data Factory

May 4, 2020 May 4, 2020 05/4/20

Tonio Lora

It's now possible to migrate relational data to Azure Cosmos DB in just six easy steps. Discover the no-code way by using the mapping data flows capability of Azure Data Factory.

Getting started with Azure Cosmos DB using API for MongoDB and Rust

April 29, 2020 Apr 29, 2020 04/29/20

Gurpreet Singh

Rust is becoming increasingly popular both externally and internally at Microsoft due to its performance and safety, especially safe concurrency. In this tutorial, we are going to be writing a Rust application to perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on data using Azure Cosmos DB's API for MongoDB. Prerequisites: ...

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