Azure Cosmos DB Blog

A tour of Always Encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB

Santosh Kulkarni July 29, 2021 Jul 29, 2021 07/29/21

Always encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB provides encryption support on the client-side to protect sensitive data by encrypting data such as credit card numbers or national identification numbers, before it gets transferred over the wire to be stored in Azure Cosmos DB. Always encrypted allows clients to protect JSON property values which are ...

Using Azure Cosmos DB as an ASP.NET session state and caching provider

Matias Quaranta July 14, 2021 Jul 14, 2021 07/14/21

Learn how to leverage Azure Cosmos DB as ASP.NET Session State provider and distributed cache by using the existing caching extension on your applications

Getting started with Kafka Connector for Azure Cosmos DB using Docker

Abhishek Gupta July 6, 2021 Jul 6, 2021 07/6/21

This blog post is a getting started guide for the Kafka Connector for Azure Cosmos DB.

Optimizing costs with the Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache

Tim Sander June 23, 2021 Jun 23, 2021 06/23/21

In this blog, we’ll dive into the details of the Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache! With the integrated cache, you can add caching to an existing Azure Cosmos DB workload without modifying your application’s logic.

Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB in the cloud – now easier than ever

Gahl Levy May 27, 2021 May 27, 2021 05/27/21

On the Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB team, we’ve worked hard to make many improvements in the Azure portal to make the API for MongoDB easy and obvious to use for MongoDB developers.

Announced at Build: new capabilities for data security and workload optimization

Aria Jelinek May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Read on for Azure Cosmos DB updates at Microsoft Build 2021, including enhanced control, security, cost savings and speed.

Announced at Build: new options to build and test apps at any scale

Aria Jelinek May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Read on Azure Cosmos DB updates at Microsoft Build 2021, including the GA of serverless, expansion of the free tier and NEW Linux emulator.

Using Spark 3 connector for Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API with Azure Databricks

Iranga Subasinghe May 18, 2021 May 18, 2021 05/18/21

In this blog post, we show how to use the Spark 3 OLTP connector for Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API with Azure Databricks workspace and explains how the Catalog API is being used. Also, explores the differences between the partitioning strategies when reading the data from Cosmos DB.

Cassandra API Recommendations for Java

Theo van Kraay May 10, 2021 May 10, 2021 05/10/21

Check out the latest recommendations for using Java V4 Cassandra Driver with Azure Cosmos DB's Cassandra API. We've created a custom Java extension that you can implement without any code changes, for a better overall experience.

Improve your Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK initialization

Matias Quaranta April 23, 2021 Apr 23, 2021 04/23/21

In this post, learn about the ways you can initialize your Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK client to avoid latency spikes in your first operations.