“We want this to be the database of the future and to last for many decades to come,” Microsoft Technical Fellow Dharma Shukla told me when we talked about Cosmos DB, the new globally distributed ...

I’ve kept you informed over the years about not just the latest news and features in SQL Server, but across the entire Microsoft Data Platform, both on-premise and in the cloud. This includes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Satya Nadella says he's never seen a database scale as quickly as Cosmos DB. "In less than a year, Azure Cosmos DB, the first globally distributed [and] multi-model database, exceeded $100 million in ...

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service, helping users and developers elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across Azure regions with a click of a ...

Microsoft’s Cosmos DB database can now be used at the center of an event-driven app built with serverless technologies. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft’s strategy for helping its customers use one of the ...

Microsoft says its new Azure cloud database is all types of databases in one. Here's why that might be a problem Microsoft apparently missed database godfather Michael Stonebraker’s memo. In 2005 ...

Developers will have an easier time scaling their applications to meet global needs with a database product Microsoft updated on Wednesday. Called Cosmos DB, the service lets developers store data ...

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