Databases

Azure SQL Database is increasing the read and writer performance

We are very excited to announce the availability of R3’s Corda on Microsoft Azure, only a few weeks after its release to the open source community.

Columnstore index is the preferred technology to run analytics queries in Azure SQL Databases. We recently announced general availability  if In-Memory technologies for all Premium databases.

In-Memory OLTP in Azure SQL Database improves performance and introduces cost savings for transaction processing, data ingestion, and transient data scenarios.

Earlier today we published the paper “Total Cost of (Non) Ownership (TCO) of NoSQL databases in 2016.” comparing TCO of hosting OSS NoSQL databases on-premises and Azure Virtual Machines, and using managed NoSQL database as a service like Azure DocumentDB.

We’re excited to introduce a public preview of the DocumentDB Emulator, which provides a local development experience for the Azure DocumentDB service.

In-Memory technologies are now generally available in Azure SQL Database, to optimize performance of transaction processing, analytics, as well as hybrid transactional and analytical workloads (HTAP).

Over the past couple weeks the DocumentDB team released a number of improvements to developer experience and capabilities of DocumentDB. We added a new quick start experience helping you to get up and running with a working app on DocumentDB in seconds.

Azure SQL Database now supports backups stored in your own Azure Backup Service Vault. This allows you easily extend the built-it retention period from 35 days to up to 10 years.

Recently we released several updates to Azure DocumentDB portal experience. We added a new consolidated metrics experience which includes new metrics for availability, throughput, consistency, and latency which allows you to track how DocumentDB is meeting its SLA.

Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft’s globally replicated, low latency, NoSQL database, is pleased to announce updates to all four of its client-side SDKs.

We are very excited to announce the next phase of our support of blockchain on Microsoft Azure with the launch of an early version of the Bletchley v1 infrastructural substrate.