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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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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

Kunal D.

Role: Operations
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Jan 2023

The No SQL powerfull solution

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

Azure Cosmos DB is a multi-model, worldwide distributed database service that provides turnkey global distribution, instantaneous automatic scaling, and ensured low-latency and high availability. It supports a variety of data models, such as document, key-value, graph, and column-family models, and it enables simple and seamless access to data using well-known APIs like SQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Gremlin, and Table. which provides everything under one umbrella and it's versatility makes it best in the competiition

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

the low latency at a global scale is truly amazing feature so that we can enjoy the benifits of distributed database without any hassale

What do you dislike most about this product?

the cost is higher than any database offerings that are there since it is high latency so the cost is too much.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

make it more affordable so that anyone can pick deploy and start working on it. and also some beginir friendly documentation would be nice.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy
Respectful
Generous Negotitation

Dilip K.

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

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2021

Excellent Seamless product

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

Best in market to carry large data volumes

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Very easy to understand and easily integrated.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing much but can be improved in some areas.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Needs to accelerate the product in integrating it with other softwares.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Generous Negotitation
Includes Product Enhancements
Reliable

Alease H.

Role: Industry Specific Role
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2021

A powerful tool for the database.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

It shows us what its essential capabilities are to obtain good performance when using it, as it is a database of graphics we can see that it is of good quality and works quickly.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

A simple and easy-to-use platform after using it a couple of times, it is also a tool that now gives us the necessary time to carry out our projects and thus avoid using RDB.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It is not a system that is compatible with XML, sometimes it can be a bit confusing for new users with too many features, but after a few times using it everything works fine.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is undoubtedly a software that can be widely recommended, thanks to its capabilities when it comes to managing large amounts of data. It is easy, fast and manageable, it is an excellent option for your organization. It saves us the time we need.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Azure Cosmos DB Ratings

83 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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+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.

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

Kunal D.

The No SQL powerfull solution

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Dilip K.

Excellent Seamless product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Alease H.

A powerful tool for the database.

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