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We’re excited to announce several new features and advancements for search and retrieval functionalities in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL including: These features open the door to building new search and AI scenarios on Azure Cosmos DB, particularly benefiting Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and multi-agent AI applications by...

We are happy to share with you an update to the Azure Cosmos DB networking configuration options within the Azure Portal. This update introduces a split in the IP address list, now presented as two distinct categories: user IP addresses and Portal Middleware IPs.  Managing IP access control policies is essential for maintaining a secure environment...

We are excited to announce the GA of Azure Cosmos DB dynamic scaling – among multiple new features (Binary Encoding, Reserved Capacity) released recently to make your Azure Cosmos DB workloads even more cost efficient. Dynamic scaling is an enhancement to autoscale which provides cost optimization for nonuniform workloads. In the earlier version of...

We’re excited to announce that the DiskANN vector index is now in open public preview in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL! This means that anyone who enrolls an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL resource in the Vector Search Public Preview now automatically gets access to the most powerful and scalable vector index on the planet. What is DiskANN? ...

Vector Search with Azure Cosmos DB Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL features advanced vector indexing and search capabilities powered by DiskANN, a suite of highly scalable, accurate, and cost-effective approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) algorithms for low-latency vector search at any scale. Azure Cosmos DB features key capabilities important for building...

Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer is a web-based tool that allows you to interact with your data, run queries, and visualize results in Azure Cosmos DB. It is available in the Azure Portal and as a standalone web app. RBAC allows you to use Microsoft Entra ID identities to control data access in Data Explorer, instead of using account keys. This way...

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 MongoDB vCo...

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 diffic...