Azure Cosmos DB
Develop AI-powered apps with a fully managed and serverless NoSQL vector database at any scale.
OVERVIEW
Develop AI-powered apps at any scale
- Fuel apps with high-performance distributed computing over massive volumes of NoSQL and vector data.
- Start small and pay for only what you use with serverless computing or enhanced and unlimited dynamic automatic scaling.
- Develop and test your applications and run small production workloads using the Azure Cosmos DB free pricing tier.
- Simplify AI apps by storing and querying vectors and NoSQL data efficiently using a serverless vector database.
- Develop apps that contain multiple agents using NoSQL data and generate queries by asking questions using natural language.
- Integrate your data with language models and use retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and vector search to enhance AI solutions.
- Build personalized and intelligent apps and AI models using real-time data, ingested and processed at any scale.
- Develop responsive, high-performance customer-facing apps with a less than 10 ms latency service level agreement (SLA), enabling read/write operations at any scale.
- Build applications using the languages and frameworks of your choice, such as Python, Node.js, and Java.
- Integrate your operational data seamlessly using Microsoft Fabric and gain actionable, near real-time insights.
- Stay compliant with enterprise-grade, multilayer security across all your data and apps.
- Get industry-leading, SLA-backed 99.999% availability for NoSQL data.
- Safeguard critical data with flexible options for continuous backup and point-in-time restore.
FEATURES
Azure Cosmos DB meets you where you are
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
Enjoy the best end-to-end Azure Cosmos DB developer experience with the native document API.
vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Use your existing MongoDB skills and tools to develop modern applications with the vector database built in.
Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB
Enable efficient, high-accuracy vector search at any scale with Azure Cosmos DB.
New dynamic automatic scaling
Achieve greater efficiency and savings by scaling non-uniform workloads independently.
Reference solutions
Reduce time to market with reference solutions for AI assistants, real-time transactions, and claims processing.
DocumentDB
Build AI-driven applications with DocumentDB, an open-source and MongoDB-compatible document database platform built on PostgreSQL.
Security
Built-in security and compliance
Microsoft has committed to investing $20 billion in cybersecurity over five years.
We employ more than 8,500 security and threat intelligence experts across 77 countries.
Azure has one of the largest compliance certification portfolios in the industry.
PRICING
Pricing that gives you flexibility and control
Find the model that best fits your workload, with free options for testing and development. Enjoy virtually unlimited throughput and storage, scale-out architectures for automatic elasticity, traditional scale-up of nodes, and consumption-based serverless options.
use cases
Discover popular Azure Cosmos DB use cases
AI assistants in any industry
Build your own agent with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure OpenAI Service.
Scalable and intelligent payment solutions
Build a payments and transactions solution and analyze transactions using an AI agent.
Claims processing
Process medical insurance claims at scale and use an AI-powered assistant to help insurance agents with recommendations.
Fast, scalable Internet of Things (IoT) device telemetry
Get insight into operations, assets, and inventory to help you improve business performance and user experience.
Personalization and recommendations
Build scalable retail experiences with a real-time product catalog, personalized recommendations, and order processing.
Multitenant software as a service (SaaS) apps
Scale to include millions of tenants using partitions and various isolation models.
Save with the Azure AI Advantage offer
Build intelligent apps in Azure and save up to $6,000 on Azure Cosmos DB with the Azure AI Advantage offer.
CUSTOMER STORIES
See how customers are innovating with Azure Cosmos DB
RESOURCES
Azure Cosmos DB resources
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL is a native non-relational database service and vector database for working with the document data model. It can arbitrarily store native JSON documents with flexible schema. Data is indexed automatically and is available for query using a flavor of the SQL query language designed for JSON data. It also supports vector search. You can access the API using SDKs for popular frameworks such as.NET, Python, Java, and Node.js.
- For NoSQL data, Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL offers comprehensive SLAs across throughput, latency, consistency, and high availability. This includes less than 10 ms write-and-read latency and 99.999% availability. Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL offers 99.95% availability. Read the SLAs.
- Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB enables you to interact with Azure Cosmos DB as if it were a MongoDB database, without having to manage the database infrastructure. When using Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, all your favorite MongoDB tooling, SDKs, and applications will continue to work. Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB is available in request unit (RU) and vCore-based form factors to suit your workloads. For detailed compatibility information, see RU documentation and vCore documentation.
- Azure Cosmos DB offers a solution for modern apps and intelligent workloads by being very responsive, offering dynamic and elastic automatic scaling. It is available in every Azure region and can automatically replicate data at locations closer to users. It has SLA-guaranteed low latency and high availability. As a non-relational database, it can ingest, process, and index any type or style of data with massive scale. Additionally, Azure Cosmos DB is a vector database with built-in support for vector search.
- Azure Cosmos DB has a lifetime free tier that makes it easy for developers to get started, develop, and test their application. The free tier can also be used to run small production workloads for free.
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