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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

After announcing support for Cosmos DB inside the Microsoft Fabric data platform at Build 2025, Microsoft recently opened a public preview of the new service. This release gives Cosmos DB a new role ...

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After almost a generation of relative stability, database technology has been rocked over the past decade by two megatrends—the end of the one-size-fits-all RDBMS model and the rise of cloud computing ...

New ways to bring MongoDB data and apps to Azure Cosmos DB Your email has been sent Branded as Microsoft’s “planetary scale database,” Cosmos DB is one of Azure’s foundational services, powering its ...

Microsoft has warned thousands of Azure customers that a now-fixed critical vulnerability found in Cosmos DB allowed any user to remotely take over other users' databases by giving them full admin ...