Azure Cosmos DB Review
The Azure Cosmos DB is being used as part of our platform. It is being used to help the existing platform we have to scale with the amount …
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What is Azure Cosmos DB?
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's Big Data analysis platform. It is a NoSQL database service and is a replacement for the earlier DocumentDB NoSQL database.
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What is Azure Cosmos DB?
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's Big Data analysis platform. It is a NoSQL database service and is a replacement for the earlier DocumentDB NoSQL database.
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July 28, 2021
Azure Cosmos DB Review
The Azure Cosmos DB is being used as part of our platform. It is being used to help the existing platform we have to scale with the amount of data that we are storing. The data stored in SQL servers did not scale for us. Reports and graphs generated from the data were slow. Azure Cosmos DB improved performance.
- Global key distribution
- Elasticity in scale
- ANSI SQL support
- Pure ACIDity support
We use it for all large-scale projects, [like] our enterprise customers who need NoSQL database with Open APIs to run the fastest time response to develop advanced and modern applications. We recommended Azure Cosmos DB to anyone because it is so fast to read and write and very useful for very large volumes of data. It’s scalable instantly and automatically serverless database for any serious large business.
- Scalable Instantly and automatically serverless database for any large scale business.
- Quick access and response to data queries due to high speed in reading and writing data
- Create a powerful digital experience for your customers with real-time offers and agile access to DB with super-fast analysis and comparison for best recommendation
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- In many ways, the price should be more flexible according to the requested facilities, because the price is very expensive for startup companies.
- It is not fully compatible with most common Streaming Analytics tools applications and developers should be worked on it
Azure Cosmos is used in a department that does a lot of analytics work and deals with big data. Typically we have systems hosted in AWS or Azure. The ones hosted in Azure datacenters rely on Azure Cosmos databases. That being said, the downstream users are scattered globally. Azure Cosmos DB is fast and reliable.
- Highly available
- Seamless service with low latency
- Can be accessed through API
- Expensive, so be careful of the use case.
- We had a thought time migrating from traditional DBs to Cosmos. Azure should provide a seamless platform for the migration of data from on-premises to cloud.
January 29, 2020
Azure Cosmos DB just works
We're using Azure Cosmos DB for multiple projects across IT that require a NoSQL data store. We were initially storing JSON data inside of SQL Server, but the volume and speed of this unstructured data were too much.
- Injects unstructured data at a very high speed.
- No real need for administrative work, it indexes everything on it's own.
- Cost, it's quite expensive.
January 17, 2020
One of the Best Cloud based DB
It's currently used for our e-Commerce enterprise platform to serve online customers to fulfill their online purchases. Currently we started using it for our ordering platform and plan to use it across multiple departments like marketing, finance, etc. As customers are growing rapidly for our system and we recently moved to a cloud platform, Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB offers high scalability and performance.
- High Avalibility
- Performance
- Migration should be easy, especially moving out of any other database platform like SQL Server, DB2, or Oracle
- Query Monitoring
December 20, 2018
A one-of-a-kind solution to more problems than you probably realize!
We use Azure Cosmos DB as our preferred NoSQL store for custom application development for our clients. It solves many of the onboarding hurdles for graph databases in particular, and the automatic indexing features make it ideal for a variety of scenarios across document and table storage as well. We rely on Cosmos DB when we need high availability, globally-distributed access with very low latency, and always-ready compute over data. In the past two years, I've found our team moving away from relational databases more and more as we're discovering ways to apply NoSQL much more cost-effectively than what could be done with an RDBMS.
- Turn-key geo-redundancy with multi-master writes is unprecedented and unparalleled in the industry!
- Guaranteed low latency makes Cosmos DB an excellent fit for most of our performance-intensive situations.
- The tunable consistency model simplifies so many challenges in distributed systems engineering that otherwise require advanced knowledge of computer science topics. I continue to be impressed at how Cosmos DB has abstracted away so much complexity.
- Cosmos DB can be very expensive if you're using it for scenarios that are better completed in regular old Azure Table Storage or Blob Storage, specifically if you put some thought into your partitioning schemes. No product is a good substitute for thoughtful system design.
- It would be helpful if I had some more insight into how many resources (DTUs) an individual query uses.
- The auto-indexing is great, but a little mysterious -- not usually an issue but it does require some intentional thought.