“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 ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

Graph databases such as Neo4j, TigerGraph, Amazon Neptune, the graph portion of Azure Cosmos DB, and AnzoGraph, the subject of this review, offer a natural representation of data that is primarily ...

Cosmos DB is a legitimate attempt to build a cloud-native database that provides support for multiple data models, APIs, and transactional modes. To date, it does not seem that Cosmos DB is gaining ...

Microsoft is making it easier to move existing MongoDB workloads to its Cosmos database. Branded as Microsoft’s “planetary scale database,” Cosmos DB is one of Azure’s foundational services, powering ...