“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 ...

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed distributed database that can be transparently replicated across regions while remaining highly performant and seamlessly scaling according to needs, making it great ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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 has fired a shot heard around the globe, so to speak, in data management with the debut of Azure Cosmos DB at the recent Microsoft Build 2017 developer conference in Seattle. The cloud ...

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Somehow, Microsoft Build, the software company, and cloud provider's annual developer conference is back. Now even the virtual nature of the event is an annual tradition -- though I hope one we can ...