Azure Cosmos DB is the next generation globally distributed multi model database from Microsoft. Cosmos DB has been built from scratch in mind with efficient global distribution and horizontal scalability aspects as the core.
- Azure Cosmos DB guarantees single-digit-millisecond latencies at the 99% availability across the world with Enterprise Level SLAs.
- Offers a set of well-defined consistency models to enable high availability.
- Multi-Model – offers ability to support key-value, graph and document data in one service
- Multi-API – Azure Cosmos DB automatically indexes all data, and allows you to use your favorite API including SQL, JavaScript, Gremlin, MongoDB and Azure Table Storage to access your data.
- Elastically scalable and higher throughput.
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** Azure Cosmos DB is a superset of the existing DocumentDB service, and Microsoft will be transitioning all existing DocumentDB customers to Azure Cosmos DB, free of charge without data loss.
Read more from:
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introduction
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-in/azure/cosmos-db/
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/cosmos-db/
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/a-technical-overview-of-azure-cosmos-db/
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Get started with Azure Cosmos DB with following quickstarts from Microsoft Docs:
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