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Azure Cosmos DB

Composite Score

7.6 /10

CX Score

7.9 /10

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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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Awards & Recognition

Azure Cosmos DB won the following awards in the Transaction Data Store category

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3 Top Rated Capabilities

13 Top Rated Features

2025

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4 Top Rated Features

2024

Azure Cosmos DB Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

83 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+89 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Azure Cosmos DB?

4% Negative

11% Neutral

85% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Inspires Innovation
Saves Time

Feature Ratings

Average 87

Data Protection and Security

Analytics and Reporting

Data Monitoring and Administration

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support

Data Replication

Systems Performance Management

Data Backup

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Data Management

Operations Management

High Availability

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

Breadth of Features

Azure Cosmos DB Reviews

Saurabh S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Retail
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Oct 2023

Easy to setup and use!

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

Microsoft's out of the box support and detailed RU consumption report

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Data Replication Data retrieval speed in single digit milliseconds SLA

What do you dislike most about this product?

Lack some features which are provided in mongodb's own Atlas DB

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Sync between azure products is best, so go for it if you have other related products already

Pros

Trustworthy
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable

Avleen K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Communications
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2023

Easy to use but with a price

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

azure cosmos provides different apis for no sql , postgres , mongo so one can use cosmos for every type of database good concept of RU based consumption Easy to provision from ARM templates and dependency checks

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

shared database model where RU's can be distributed

What do you dislike most about this product?

High cost, we have used atals mongo which comes at less than 30 percent cost

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

try to explore different database models , dont blindly provision cause it can incur the cost

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Cons

Less Respectful

Mayank K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Retail
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Oct 2023

Good features but with less reliability

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

Multi Model Database Cosmos supports multiple API's including Mongo , postgres, nosql. Integration with multiple products including azure functions , search

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Multiple API's supported so can use all the features all in one place Integration with Azure Monitor and cognitive search

What do you dislike most about this product?

Reliability increasing RU from console ususally takes time more than hour sometimes and can block systems completely

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Mongo Atlas is better product

Pros

Saves Time
Security Protects
Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing

Cons

Slower Product Innovation
Less Reliable

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Azure Cosmos DB Ratings

83 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+89 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Azure Cosmos DB?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Protection and Security Includes data encryption, data audit, and data compliance.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Data Monitoring and Administration Includes ability to continuously monitored data quality rules, as well as generate alerts to notify data stewards when they need to address an issue.

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support Includes OLTP and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing). Most OLTP systems support some level of OLAP but very few OLAP systems support OLTP.

Data Replication Support for a real-time copy of the database in more than one system to facilitate access to the copy of data from multiple systems without any inconsistencies.

Systems Performance Management Includes monitoring, analyzing and configuration in order to optimize performance and increase efficiency.

Data Backup Includes the creation of duplicate instances to recover from an unplanned data loss. Also, support for high volumes of data processing and data compression.

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment Supports one or many deployment models - On-prem, cloud or hybrid hosting of the database system.

Data Management Includes data sharing, data storage, records management, and data security.

Operations Management Includes cost control, production management, and performance management.

High Availability HA DB designed for near-zero downtown by seamless replication of data between environments for uninterrupted real-time access and fail-over capabilities.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

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Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Azure Cosmos DB Reviews

Saurabh S.

Easy to setup and use!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Avleen K.

Easy to use but with a price

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Mayank K.

Good features but with less reliability

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Feature Ratings

Data Protection and Security

Analytics and Reporting

Data Monitoring and Administration

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support

Data Replication

Systems Performance Management

Data Backup

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Data Management

Operations Management

High Availability

Vendor Capability Ratings

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

Breadth of Features