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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
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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
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6.1
- Learning curve is pretty high
- Another "language" to learn
Azure Cosmos DB has the benefit of having multi-master key tenancy compared to Redis and Mongo. Reads are just as fast, if not faster than Mongo. However, the distribution of writes (i.e. ACID transactions) isn't as high as Google Cloud Spanner or CouchDB. Azure Cosmos DB writes slower than Cassandra, but with Cosmos, we do not have to worry about replication or tools like Zookeeper to handle it. Azure Cosmos DB has it built-in.
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
- When searching by default, it is case sensitive, which must be changed by default
- 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
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9.3
- High response speed in reading and writing data and real-time results multiplies the speed of action in all tasks
- Save costs and access database results by reducing managed costs
- Ability to build advanced applications and software easier in the shortest possible time
- OrientDB, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB Atlas and Google BigQuery
Because we often use Microsoft products for large corporate projects and other customer projects, and compatibility and integration are important to us, we used this platform, which in addition to very high security, has a very good response speed, also, building modern applications in this way has been much easier than competing platforms.
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.
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9.0
- Azure Cosmos DB may be expensive on its own, but it was cheaper than increasing the size/power of our VMs running SQL Server instances enough to keep up with the volume and velocity of the unstructured data.
- We got the JSON data out of our SQL Servers and they quit tipping over.
Our development and administration teams are just more familiar with the Microsoft Stack, and there was very little additional knowledge required to put this into production.
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
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8.0
- RDBMS Database Platform
- MS Customer Support and Documentation
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.
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9.6
- Tremendously reduced our time-to-market with solutions built on graph databases
- Helped our team to think more broadly about data by making NoSQL options much more accessible
- Saved us significant effort on geo-replication and global availability
Cosmos DB is unique in the industry as a true multi-model, cloud-native database engine that comes with solutions for geo-redundancy, multi-master writes, (globally!) low latency, and cost-effective hosting built in. I've yet to see anything else that even comes close to the power that Cosmos DB packs into its solution. The simplicity and tooling support are nice bonus features as well.