Databases

Today, we want to call attention to the exciting news that Azure SQL Data Warehouse has again outperformed other cloud providers in the most recent GigaOm benchmark report.

A few months ago, we released a blog post that provided guidance on how to deploy Apache Airflow on Azure.

We all want the truth. To properly assess your cloud analytics provider, ask them about the only three things that matter: independent benchmark results, company-wide access to insights, and security & privacy.

Using Azure Cosmos DB, Skype replaced three monolithic, geographically isolated data stores with a single, globally distributed user data service that delivers better throughput, lower latencies, and improved availability.

Skype found the perfect fit in Azure Cosmos DB, the globally distributed NoSQL database service from Microsoft.

Founded in 2003, Skype has grown to become one of the world’s premier communication services, making it simple to share experiences with others wherever they are.

This blog post continues the Azure SQL Database architecture series where we share background on how we run the service, as described by the architects who originally created the service.

March 20, 2019 marked the first anniversary of general availability for our managed open source RDBMS services Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL.

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is the fully-managed data integration service for analytics workloads in Azure.

Clean up files by built-in delete activity in Azure Data Factory

Learn the latest integration in Azure Data Factory with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Azure Data Explorer which enables you to meet the advanced needs of your analytics workloads by leveraging these services.

We’re excited to announce that Forrester has named Microsoft as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL based on their evaluation of Azure Cosmos DB.