Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Use Indexes for blazing-fast queries on your API for MongoDB Data

Gahl Levy October 6, 2021 Oct 6, 2021 10/6/21

What’s better than faster queries – how about an order of magnitude faster queries? That’s what indexes do in the API for MongoDB. Let’s dive into the three things that are most important for MongoDB developers to know about indexing when building their applications on the API for MongoDB.

Planning Azure Cosmos DB capacity using vCores, vCPUs, and request rates

Andy Feldman September 28, 2021 Sep 28, 2021 09/28/21

How to use the information you know about your database clusters to estimate the provisioned throughput request units you'll need when migrating NoSQL data to Azure Cosmos DB and avoid over-provisioning or overpaying

New and recently updated documentation for Azure Cosmos DB

Nikisha Reyes-Grange September 23, 2021 Sep 23, 2021 09/23/21

What's new in docs? Explore the technical documentation that's been recently published and updated for Azure Cosmos DB.

Enhance local development experience using the Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator and VS Code

Abhishek Gupta September 21, 2021 Sep 21, 2021 09/21/21

Develop your next app database locally using the Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator on Docker (preview) with Visual Studio Code. This post includes a sample with GitHub repository and a step-by-step video.

Getting started with Azure Cosmos DB – end to end example, part 2

Cyrille Visser September 14, 2021 Sep 14, 2021 09/14/21

The second of a two-part series about creating your first Azure Cosmos DB implementation. Learn how to improve performance by optimizing queries and monitoring your database account.

Getting started with Azure Cosmos DB – end to end example

Cyrille Visser September 9, 2021 Sep 9, 2021 09/9/21

Understand how to create your first Azure Cosmos DB implementation with this two-part series. From when and why to choose a NoSQL database to creating containers and selecting an API, follow this end-to-end example to walk through the steps you'll take to get started.

Cost Optimized Metrics through Log Analytics

Abinav Rameesh August 23, 2021 Aug 23, 2021 08/23/21

Azure Cosmos DB is designed for high throughput and low latency workloads, with the ability to serve millions of requests per second and billions of requests a day. In addition to seeking a scalable database that can serve massive volumes of traffic, users also look for granular server-side metrics for monitoring the health and performance of ...

Now Generally Available – Azure Cosmos DB Kafka Source & Sink Connectors

Abinav Rameesh August 13, 2021 Aug 13, 2021 08/13/21

Explore the architecture of the source and sink Apache Kafka Connectors for Azure Cosmos DB along with their popular areas of usage.

Now in private preview: optimize your data distribution with hierarchical partition keys

Deborah Chen August 12, 2021 Aug 12, 2021 08/12/21

Hierarchical partition keys are now available in private preview for the Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API. With hierarchical partition keys, also known as sub-partitioning, you can now natively partition your container with up to three levels of partition keys. This enables more optimal partitioning strategies for multi-tenant scenarios or ...

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 ...