Azure Cosmos DB (SQL API)
Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed, globally distributed, and multi-model database service provided by Microsoft Azure. It offers guaranteed low-latency, high-throughput, and high availability, making it suitable for mission-critical applications that require global scale and elastic scalability.
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2014
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Azure Cosmos DB was created to solve the challenge of building globally distributed, highly responsive, and scalable applications. It provides a fully managed, multi-model database service with guaranteed low-latency, high availability, and elastic throughput and storage, eliminating the need for complex infrastructure management and allowing developers to focus on application logic rather than database operations.
- Platforms
- Azure Cloud Platform, Cross-platform (accessible via SDKs from any OS with internet connectivity)
Related technologies
Notable users
- ABB
- Alaska Airlines
- Jet.com
- BNP Paribas
- Microsoft (internal services like Xbox, Microsoft Teams, Azure Portal)