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Nov 5, 2025
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Now Available: Sort Geospatial Query Results by ST_Distance in Azure Cosmos DB

James Codella
James Codella

Azure Cosmos DB’s geospatial capabilities just got even better! We're excited to announce that you can now sort query results by distance using an ORDER BY ST_DISTANCE(...) clause in the NoSQL query language while leveraging a spatial index. Why is this important? Previously, you could use ST_DISTANCE in projections or WHERE clauses to fi...

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQLQuery
May 7, 2020
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Using spatial geometry data in Azure Cosmos DB

Tim Sander
Tim Sander

Support for two different types of spatial data has been added to Azure Cosmos DB. Using the SQL (Core) API: geography data (round-earth coordinate system), and two-dimensional geometry data.

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