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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 ...

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 ...

Benchmarking Data Migration from Cassandra to Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API

June 28, 2022 Jun 28, 2022 06/28/22
authorsAlp Kaya, Akash Shankaran
About the authors:  Akash & Alp We are working with many customers who for a variety of reasons such as not having to deal with patching the O/S, upgrades, scalability, etc. are looking to move their Cassandra IaaS workloads to Azure and one of the destinations is Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API. We wanted to explore and dive deeper into...
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Now Generally Available – Partial Document Update in Azure Cosmos DB

November 2, 2021 Nov 2, 2021 11/2/21
authorsAbhishek Gupta, Sajeetharan Sinnathurai
Check out the new partial document update feature for Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API, announced at Microsoft Ignite. This feature makes it possible to use the Java, .NET, and Node.js SDKs to perform path-level updates to specific fields/properties in a single document without needing to perform a full document read-replace operation.

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

September 11, 2020 Sep 11, 2020 09/11/20
Luis Bosquez
(image) 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 ...

Native Mongo shell on Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB now in preview

March 19, 2020 Mar 19, 2020 03/19/20
Luis Bosquez
We are happy to announce the preview release for native Mongo shell v3.6.8 on the Data Explorer for Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB! This will provide you with the native Mongo shell capabilities for database management and CRUD operations. This is available in your Data Explorer either in the Azure Portal or in its stand-alone version...