Build planet-scale applications more easily than ever
Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed database service with turnkey global distribution and transparent multi-master replication. Get single-digit millisecond read and write latencies at the 99th percentile, automatic and elastic scaling of throughput and storage worldwide, 99.999-per cent high availability, and five well-defined consistency choices – all backed by industry-leading comprehensive SLAs.
Turnkey global distribution with transparent multi-master replication and five well-defined consistency choices
Single-digit millisecond latency at the 99th percentile and 99.999-per cent high availability, for any scale, backed by SLAs
Elastic and unlimited scalability to meet demand with capacity, and payment based on only the throughput and storage you need
Multi-model with wire protocol-compatible API endpoints for Cassandra, MongoDB, SQL, Gremlin, Etcd and Table, along with built-in support for Apache Spark and Jupyter notebooks
Distribute data globally with a single click
Add or remove regions to and from your globally distributed database at any time, without the hassle of multi-data centre database management, and scale throughput and storage automatically and elastically across those regions. Your applications are guaranteed single-digit millisecond read and write latencies at the 99th percentile and 99.999-per cent high availability globally, with multi-master replication and the choice of five well-defined consistency models.
Access and query using the data model and API of your choice
Access and query data using APIs for SQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Gremlin, Etcd and Table and use Apache Spark for planet-scale operational analytics. Point existing open-source NoSQL client drivers and tools at your Cosmos database to preserve existing OSS investments, or easily migrate MongoDB, Cassandra or other NoSQL workloads to Azure Cosmos DB.
Real-time operational analytics and AI at global scale
Run globally distributed, low-latency operational analytics and AI on transactional data within your database. With native support for Apache Spark and Jupyter notebooks, Azure Cosmos DB helps reduce time to insights by ingesting and serving data and running analytics against the local database replica in an Azure region. Directly execute Apache Spark queries on indexed multi-model data stored within your data partitions, without any unnecessary data movement.
Battle-tested for mission-critical enterprise workloads
Run your mission-critical workloads on a proven multi-model database service, built on world-class infrastructure with enterprise-grade security and compliance trusted by leading enterprises, including Microsoft. Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed, globally distributed database service with industry-leading, comprehensive SLAs.
Develop apps with Azure Cosmos DB solution architectures
Design and implement breakthrough IoT, e-commerce, gaming and serverless applications with data distribution across any number of Azure regions.
Industry leaders innovating with Azure Cosmos DB
American Cancer Society connects volunteers, reduces costs while helping to save lives
“Results… have simply been phenomenal. The first year, we did 86 per cent more revenue year over year. Last year, we did over 55 per cent more revenue.” – Ben Kaplan, Senior Director of Digital Products
ExxonMobil subsidiary taps the cloud to optimise operations and drive growth
“With Microsoft, Azure, and IoT technologies, XTO Energy is an innovation leader in the oil and gas industry.” – Anish Patel, Permian Technology Integration Manager
Jet.com builds innovative e-commerce engine on Azure in less than a year
“When we were building Jet’s next-generation event sourcing platform, Azure Cosmos DB offered the low latency, high throughput, global availability and rich feature set critical to our success.” – Scott Havens, Director of Software Engineering
ASOS bets on Azure to support a stellar experience for more than 15 million online shoppers
“We chose Azure Cosmos DB because of its global distribution and ability to handle heavy seasonal bursts like Black Friday… We can distribute our data models to be near the microservices they’re serving – wherever that is in the world.” - Bob Strudwick, Chief Technology Officer
Bentley delivers new insights and shorter delivery times for engineering solutions
“We see great potential for Azure Cosmos DB in our products… Building a flexible, scalable data layer with Azure Cosmos DB will enable us to deliver actionable insights to our users.” – Phil Christensen, Senior Vice President, Reality Modeling and Cloud Services
Pricing that gives you flexibility and control
Manage resources and costs with virtually unlimited throughput and storage, and elastic scalability. Charges are based on provisioned throughput and SSD-backed storage consumed by data and index, across all selected regions.
Designed for developers, with support for a wide range of APIs
SQL (Core) API
Build new apps with ease. Azure Cosmos DB includes native support for SQL (Core) API and JavaScript. Azure Cosmos DB SQL API provides a formal programming model for rich queries over JSON items. The Azure Cosmos DB query language is based on the JavaScript programming model, and the SQL API is rooted in the JavaScript type system, expression evaluation and function invocation.
Cassandra API
Deliver Cassandra as a service using the capabilities of Azure Cosmos DB. Use Cassandra SDKs and tools, including existing drivers, to build applications at near-infinite, global scale with SLA-backed capabilities of the Azure Cosmos DB platform.
Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB
Use Azure Cosmos DB as a fully managed database service for your MongoDB app, with few code changes and native API support for MongoDB data, giving your app the benefits of a cloud-native platform.
Gremlin API
Take advantage of native graph data model support on Azure Cosmos DB without any code changes, and issue globally distributed graph queries using Gremlin API.
Built-in support for Apache Spark and Jupyter notebooks
Enable real-time machine learning and AI over globally distributed datasets by using built-in support for Apache Spark and Jupyter notebooks. With built-in support for Apache Spark and Jupyter notebooks, Azure Cosmos DB reduces time to insights and offers globally distributed, low-latency operational analytics for any scale.
Table API
Use Azure Cosmos DB as a globally distributed database for your Azure Table storage-based application, without any code changes, using the Table API. You get secondary indexes, global distribution, policy-based failover capabilities and many other capabilities.
Why Azure for security?
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Everything you need to get started
Documentation, training and migration resources
Community and Azure support
Ask questions and get support from Microsoft engineers and Azure community experts on Stack Overflow, and find samples and repositories on GitHub.
Tutorials and labs
Azure Cosmos DB updates, blogs and announcements
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Azure Cosmos DB—Direct connectivity support for Java Async SDK is now in preview
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Upgraded Gremlin API functionality for Azure Cosmos DB is now available
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Enhanced SQL API query functionality in Azure Cosmos DB is now available
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Azure Cosmos DB Operator role for role-based access control (RBAC) is now available
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Enhanced Azure Resource Manager support for Azure Cosmos DB is now available
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Corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services
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Azure Cosmos DB API for etcd in preview
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Azure Cosmos DB notebook experience
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Azure Cosmos DB API for Spark and etcd
Highlights from Microsoft Build
See all Azure Cosmos DB sessions from the conference on demand.
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Frequently asked questions
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Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service for any scale. The service was built from the ground up with global distribution and horizontal scale at its core.
With turnkey global distribution across any number of Azure regions, Azure Cosmos DB transparently scales and replicates your data wherever your users are. Elastically scale your writes and reads all around the globe and only pay for what you need. Azure Cosmos DB provides native support for NoSQL and OSS APIs, including MongoDB, Cassandra, Gremlin, etcd, Spark and SQL. It also offers multiple well-defined consistency models, guaranteed single-digit-millisecond read and write latencies at the 99th percentile, and guaranteed 99.999-per cent high availability with multi-homing anywhere in the world – all backed by industry-leading, comprehensive SLAs.
Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed service that enables you to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling distributed databases to Azure, so you don’t have to worry about managing VMs, hardware provisioning, setup and configuration, capacity, replication, software patching or cluster scaling.
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With Azure Cosmos DB, you can configure your databases to be globally distributed and available in any of the Azure regions. To minimise latency, place the data close to where your users are.
Azure Cosmos DB transparently replicates the data to all the regions associated with your Azure Cosmos DB account. It provides a single system image of your globally distributed Azure Cosmos DB database and containers that your application can read and write to locally.
With turnkey global distribution, you can add or remove the regions associated with your account at any time. Your application doesn’t need to be paused or redeployed to add or remove a region. High availability is maintained through multi-homing capabilities provided natively by the service. Learn more.
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Azure Cosmos DB approaches data consistency as a spectrum of choices, with more options than the two extremes of strong and eventual consistency.
Choose from five well-defined models on the consistency spectrum:
- Strong
- Bounded staleness
- Session
- Consistent prefix
- Eventual
Each model is backed by comprehensive SLAs. Learn more.
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As a globally distributed database, Azure Cosmos DB provides comprehensive SLAs that encompass throughput, latency at the 99th percentile, consistency and high availability.
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Azure Cosmos DB transparently replicates your data across all the Azure regions associated with your Azure Cosmos DB account. The service applies multiple layers of redundancy to your data. Get more details.