Azure DocumentDB
Build AI-driven apps and standardize on an open-source, MongoDB-compatible engine. Azure DocumentDB supports hybrid and multicloud architectures with enterprise-grade performance, availability, and easy Azure AI integration.
OVERVIEW
Innovate on an open-source, MongoDB-compatible multicloud document database
- Power your document database workloads with Azure DocumentDB, built on DocumentDB—the MongoDB-compatible, open-source engine hosted at the Linux Foundation for transparency, community-driven innovation, and freedom from restrictive licenses.
- Build and test with DocumentDB in your own environment—on-premises, local, or other clouds. Then deploy to Azure DocumentDB (formerly vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB) for enterprise-grade scale, security, and management to enable hybrid and multicloud solutions.
- Develop new applications quickly using your existing skills, drivers, and tools to speed up innovation.
- Store and query embeddings alongside document data with native vector indexing, eliminating the need for a separate vector store. Take advantage of advanced vector indexing with scalable and accurate DiskANN.
- Deliver smarter, context-aware results by blending vector search with keyword search using Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF).
- Create retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows, chatbots, and intelligent agents directly on Azure DocumentDB with unified operational and AI data. Connect with large-language models (LLMs), LangChain, and Azure AI to accelerate the path from prototype to production.
- Build on the proven reliability and effectiveness of Azure DocumentDB (formerly vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB).
- Secure access using organizational identities for centralized authentication and governance.
- Encrypt data at rest with your own keys in Azure Key Vault, and easily manage the life cycle of keys to align with corporate policies.
- Run mission-critical workloads with high-availability SLAs up to 99.995%, covering cluster, replication, networking, and storage layers.
- Reduce total cost of ownership by scaling compute and storage layers independently. Get 35 days of free backups, and access anytime support included in the price of Azure DocumentDB.
- Handle your variable workloads and help eliminate unnecessary wait time with a real-time, dynamically adjusting capacity that scales up or down based on application demands.
- Begin your open-source DocumentDB project locally or in any cloud—or take advantage of the Azure DocumentDB free tier option that gives you a dedicated cluster with 32 GB of storage for the lifetime of your account.
FEATURES
Discover why Azure DocumentDB is right for you
Open source and multicloud
Azure DocumentDB (formerly vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB) is built on the robust foundation of DocumentDB, an open-source document database platform. DocumentDB provides a portable, interoperable solution for document data stores either on-premises, in multicloud environments, or in hybrid architectures.
Integrated vector store
The integrated vector database in Azure DocumentDB efficiently connects your AI applications with your data. And Microsoft DiskANN can be tasked with performing highly accurate and scalable similarity searches across complex data sets.
Integration with the Azure platform
Azure DocumentDB provides a comprehensive and integrated solution for resource management, monitoring, enterprise security, application hosting, and AI integrations in Azure.
Instant automatic scaling
Instant scalability helps ensure your database adapts immediately to changing workloads, helping eliminate performance bottlenecks and avoid unnecessary costs.
High availability
A high-availability SLA up to 99.995% applies best practices for increased uptime and improved disaster recovery.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Flexible, cost-efficient pricing
Azure DocumentDB (formerly vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB) offers a familiar architecture at a price that includes free backups up to 35 days and anytime support.
Customer Stories
Innovating with Azure DocumentDB
Learn how customers are using Azure DocumentDB (formerly vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB).
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Azure DocumentDB is the new name for vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. Azure DocumentDB is a fully managed and enterprise-ready document database service, built on the open-source and MongoDB-compatible DocumentDB engine. It combines a document API, vector, and hybrid search for AI apps and agents, automatic and instant scalability, and high-availability SLAs for easy integration with Azure security, analytics, and AI services.
- Existing customers will eventually see the product referred to by its new name in the Azure portal. There’s no change in terms of pricing or the functionality of the database service.
- Azure DocumentDB is a managed and open-source document database designed for hybrid and multicloud flexibility. Applications can be built using the free MogoDB-compatible, open-source DocumentDB platform, and deployed in Azure DocumentDB for easy integration with Azure services and Azure OpenAI, or in any other cloud platform that supports DocumentDB. Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed and serverless NoSQL and vector database with a native API. It provides unlimited and dynamic scaling with a high-availability SLA of up to 99.999% and a low-latency SLA of less than 10 ms.
- Azure DocumentDB has a free tier, enabling developers to explore the platform without any financial commitments. With the free tier, developers get a dedicated DocumentDB cluster with 32 GB storage. The free tier lasts for the lifetime of the Azure account. Developers can also use the free open-source DocumentDB locally or in any cloud environment.
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