Azure’s Cosmos DB is one of the platform’s foundations, powering many of its key services. Designed from the ground up as a distributed database, it implements a set of different consistency models ...

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What’s emerging is a very different approach to data across competing cloud vendors. AWS has introduced powerful options for familiar data needs: Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, Amazon ...

Microsoft hasn't shared many real-world statistics on the uptake of its Azure Stack hybrid-cloud platform. Nor has it shared much lately about the long-term roadmap for the product. (The nearer-term ...

And Nehme is gung-ho, asserting that developers should use Cosmos DB for any new Azure-based application. That's a bold statement, especially for a former member of the SQL Server team who worked on ...

Microsoft used Ignite 2025 to push Azure Cosmos DB further into AI search and agentic workflows, highlighting new capabilities aimed at developers building retrieval-heavy applications and multi-agent ...

Why it matters: As part of its transition to a cloud company, Microsoft has been extolling the supposed virtues of digital transformation and encouraging organizations to move their businesses from on ...

Microsoft plans to strengthen its database pitch to cloud customers Wednesday at Microsoft Build by unveiling Azure Cosmos DB, a new database built with latency and throughput in mind and backed by ...

In its database offerings, the Microsoft Azure cloud is starting to look a lot more like the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) cloud. It's another new Azure offering, though, that may see even AWS ...