Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft's globally distributed NoSQL database on Azure, with document, MongoDB, Cassandra and Gremlin APIs over one engine. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Created by
- Dharma Shukla
- First release
- 2017
- License
- Proprietary
- Open source
- No
- Pricing
- Free with paid plans
- Website
- https://azure.microsoft.com/products/cosmos-db
- Written in
- C++
- Data model
- Document, Key-value, Wide-column, Graph, Vector
- Storage layout
- Document
- Workload
- Transactions (OLTP)
- Analytics architecture
- Not an analytics platform
- Query language
- SQL (NoSQL API), MongoDB, Cassandra, Gremlin
- ACID transactions
- Yes
- Schema
- Flexible
- Deployment
- Managed cloud
- Scaling
- Natively distributed
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: fast (Writes scale by partition, priced in request units); Read: fast (Fast point reads by id and partition key); Update: fast (Replace or patch a document); Delete: fast (By id, expiry by time)