What is Azure Cosmos DB?
Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database service for modern app development with guaranteed single-digit millisecond response times and 99.999-per cent availability, backed by SLAs, automatic and instant scalability, and open-source APIs for MongoDB and Cassandra. Azure Cosmos DB offers a solution for modern apps and intelligent workloads by being very responsive with dynamic and elastic autoscale. It is available in every Azure region and can automatically replicate data closer to users.
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86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+88 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Inspires Innovation
- Saves Time
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Azure Cosmos DB Reviews
Vinod P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2024
HIghly available & scalable with complex costing
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?
Cosmos DB has a distribution available across glob and it has support for multiple models types including key value, graph, column store etc. Also it have best SLA since it is backed by Microsoft. Also scalabllby of azure cosmos DB is really amazing and it scales smoothly based on requirement.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite part of cosmos db its consistency, in fact is offers as many as five levels of consistency, which means you can configure your cosmos database to strike a perfect balance between consistency and performance. This is very critical and usually not much NOSQl databases provide this feature. Also if you are part of azure ecosystem then cosmos can be integrated with them pretty naturally without much additional configurations.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Cosmos db has a confusing pricing structure, it charges based on RUs utilized. This means you have be pretty accurate in your estimations on number of hits that database will get and this will dictate the final price of the cosmos db. I really wish they have a simpler pricing structure.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Azure cosmos db is higly scalable and available database. Also its performance is almost guaranteed since its supported by Microsoft. But Cosmos DB has very confusing pricing structure, If you do not estimate correctly you might end paying way more that you had expected. It is complex and not ideal for smaller teams. If you are part of larger organization and already have azure ecosystem then cosmos DB would be a natural choice for you and would be the best as well.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Cons
- Vendor's Interest First
- Less Transparent
Johan O.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Gaming and Hospitality
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Dec 2023
The free tier takes you very far
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?
The free tier takes you much further than you might expect. You only pay if you reach over a certain limit and we seldom do.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It's very fast and you can use multiple write regions
What do you dislike most about this product?
Aggregated queries can be expensive, so you might need to have duplicated data that covers different types of queries, and maybe even a separate SQL database for reporting.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Free tier is completely free so give it a go
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
Rituja N.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Dec 2023
Good speed, reliability, and scalability
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?
Azure Cosmos DB differentiates itself from other similar products through its multi-model, globally distributed database service that offers high availability, low latency, and automatic scaling across multiple regions. It supports different data models such as document, key-value, graph, and column family, providing flexibility for diverse data storage and retrieval requirements.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of Azure Cosmos DB, is its exceptional speed of data ingestion, reliability, and high availability
What do you dislike most about this product?
The data manipulation capabilities of Azure Cosmos DB have at times presented challenges, which is an aspect that I find particularly unfavorable about this product
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Familiarize yourself with the Well-Architected Framework best practices for Azure Cosmos DB, which ensure efficient, reliable, secure, and cost-optimized solutions. Understanding these best practices can help in deploying high-quality, stable, and efficient cloud architectures
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- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
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