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 ...

Today at Microsoft’s Build Conference in Seattle, the company launched Azure Cosmos DB – a brand new schemaless database system designed for large, globally-distributed, data-intensive applications.

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Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed distributed database that can be transparently replicated across regions while remaining highly performant and seamlessly scaling ...

“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 ...