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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82 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
85 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
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
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
Tarun B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2023
Best Database Offering for developing Solutions
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?
Simply create a Database from console , hardly requires any knowledge Start visualising the data in the console or through the queries Support of Azure data factory to migrate data between databases RU management is really cool Support for Nosql, Mongo , Postgres is highly beneficial
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Request Unit, Request Charge management is really cool
What do you dislike most about this product?
A bit unstable sometimes , takes time to query the data when under little bit of load
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Its simple to use create DB and start developing solutions
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Inspires Innovation
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