Microsoft Ignite 2024 took over the Windy City this week, bringing with it new technological innovation and exciting product announcements aplenty! If you missed the first day of the show, don't worry – we’ve got you covered with all the latest and greatest Azure Cosmos DB news. This year's event saw great enthusiasm and attendance at McCorm...
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...
Azure Cosmos DB powers some of the world’s most popular intelligent apps like ChatGPT. In a recent hackathon, Over 9,500 developers engaged with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure AI services, making it one of the most popular on Devpost, ranking in the top 0.2% of all Devpost hackathons. Participants explored AI fundamentals and built their own AI appl...
We are excited to publish a new whitepaper titled, Microsoft DiskANN in Azure Cosmos DB, where we examine the impressive capabilities of Microsoft DiskANN, a state-of-the-art indexing system designed for accurate and cost-efficient vector search at any scale. We start off with a review of key vector search and database concepts, then follow by d...
Announcing Azure Cosmos DB Vector Store Integration with LangChain.js! We're simplifying AI app development by integrating Azure Cosmos DB's cost-effective and scalable vector search directly with LangChain.js! This powerful combination empowers JavaScript developers to efficiently manage fast and accurate data retrieval with Azure Cosmos DB's sca...
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...
 We are excited to announce that native vector indexing and search in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL is now available in preview! Azure Cosmos DB is the world’s first full-featured serverless database with vector search and features multiple vector index options from flat (exact), quantized flat, and a new DiskANN-based index. DiskANN is a suite...
We’re thrilled to share the exciting news that the integrated vector database 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 y...
We are delighted to announce Cassandra 5.0 in public preview for Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, with vector search capabilities enabled! Vector Database in Cassandra 5.0 In Cassandra 5.0, the integrated vector database is backed by storage-attached indexes that represent data as vectors in a multi-dimensional space. We use...
