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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

Nitin G.

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

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Submitted Mar 2023

RU optimization is not efficient

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

The number of available API's give flexibility to choose SQL API vs Mongo DB API's etc

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Available connectors to create link service between CosmosDB & Synapse for both Operational & Transactional Data.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Costing approach

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you looking for Data platform which has the flexibility to switch between the multiple API's without opting for multiple different resources

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy

Kevin I.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Not for Profit
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Jan 2023

Great extensibility and easy to setup in code.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

It is backed by microsoft and it has many webhooks you can integrate with through Power Automate apps in azure ecosystem, making it really easy to integrate with third party systems.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It was really easy for us to setup for our needs guiding ourselves with the documentation available.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing in particular, it has done the job greatly so far.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Evaluate what is the core of your data and how you could benefit from NoSQL databases, in our case we used cosmos db for logging purposes in our web applications, so it was really easy to setup. And the SDK that microsoft provides is a pleasure to work with.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Santanu Kumar D.

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

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Submitted Jan 2023

Fantastic DB product by Azure, highly scalable

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

Cosmos DB is a fully managed, globally scaled DB solution provided by Azure. The features which differentiates this from other managed DB solutions is the various data models, low latency, high availability and data replication Cosmos DB offers, which is amongst the best in the market.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The best part of Cosmos DB is that it is fully-managed by Azure and can support almost all types of data models to store in the DB. It also provides high availability, data replication and low latency which is perhaps the best in the segment.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Apart from all the great features Cosmos DB provides, it comes with a cost which is on the higher side. So the cost and the initial complexities of Cosmos DB is something which enterprises and companies should take into account before making a switch.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Overall Azure Cosmos DB is a great product which can add value to comapnies and customers who are looking for a reliable, highly scalable, fast and feature rich managed DB solution.

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Effective Service

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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

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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.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

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

Nitin G.

RU optimization is not efficient

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kevin I.

Great extensibility and easy to setup in code.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Santanu Kumar D.

Fantastic DB product by Azure, highly scalable

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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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