Azure Cosmos DB is an easy-to-use, scalable, NoSQL database available in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. Cosmos DB is hosted on SSDs and hence data storage and retrieval is very fast.

Although it still has a ways to go to beat out Amazon DynamoDB or even its sibling Azure SQL Database, at this rate of growth Cosmos DB may actually surpass both in 2018. That’s impressive ...

Q&A. Empowering AI Applications with Vector Search in SQL Server and Azure Cosmos DB. By David Ramel; 05/27/2025; As developers look to harness the power of AI in their applications, one of the most ...

This project (which at the time was called “Project Florence”) first turned into DocumentDB, Azure’s NoSQL database service, which launched in 2015 and is now morphing into Cosmos DB. Cosmos ...

Announcing the New Free Tier for Azure Cosmos DB. The new free tier for Azure Cosmos DB offers new accounts 400 RUs and 5GB of storage free each month. This amounts to about $25/month in free services ...

To date, it does not seem that Cosmos DB is gaining mindshare—it ranks at number 25 on the db-engines.com database ratings, for instance. However, Microsoft is known for its persistence and patience; ...

Microsoft introduces Azure Cosmos DB, a new database with a broad money-back guarantee by Tom Krazit on May 10, 2017 at 8:00 am May 10, 2017 at 12:15 pm Share 75 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

Microsoft debuted Azure Cosmos DB-- its globally distributed, multi-model database -- at Build 2017. Azure Cosmos DB was designed t be a superset of Microsoft's existing NoSQL Document DB database.