Azure Cosmos DB

Last week in Azure started 2018 with addressing a far-reaching security vulnerability at the CPU level, new developer tools for big data, tech content, and more.

Catch up on what you may have missed over the holidays, including important Azure HDInsights news.

Today we’re excited to launch native support for Apache Cassandra API in Azure Cosmos DB – offering you Cassandra as-a-service powered by Azure Cosmos DB.

Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of November 6, 2017: Data & Analytics updates, accelerating enterprise blockchain, Azure IP Advantage, automatic OS upgrades in VM Scale Sets, and more!

We are happy to announce the public preview of Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer (ASE).

Today we’re announcing several metrics to help you get the most out of the provisioned throughput, as well as integration of our metrics with the Azure Monitor, and a preview of diagnostics logs for data operations, integrated with OMS.

Today we are launching Try Azure Cosmos DB for free, an experience that allows anyone to play with Azure Cosmos DB, with no Azure sign up required and at no charge for a limited time.

Azure Cosmos DB, announced at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference, is the first globally distributed, multi-model database service for building planet scale apps. You can easily build globally-distributed applications without the hassle of complex, multiple-datacenter configurations.

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Azure Cosmos DB.

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, horizontally partitioned, multi-model database service. The service is designed to allow customers to elastically (and independently) scale throughput and storage across any number of geographical regions.

Today we are excited to announce Azure DocumentDB SDK for Xamarin mobile platform, enabling mobile apps to interact directly with DocumentDB.

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.