Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service offered by Microsoft Azure. It is designed to provide guaranteed single-digit millisecond latency at the 99th percentile, 99.999% availability, and elastic scalability for both throughput and storage, making it…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2016
- Category
- database
- Problem solved
- Azure Cosmos DB was created to solve the challenge of building globally distributed, highly responsive, and elastically scalable applications that require low-latency access to data anywhere in the world. Traditional databases, even many early NoSQL solutions, struggled to offer guaranteed global distribution, multi-master replication, consistent single-digit millisecond latency SLAs, and elastic scalability without significant operational overhead and complex custom engineering efforts.
- Platforms
- Microsoft Azure (cloud service)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Experian
- Walgreens
- Starbucks
- Microsoft (internal services like Xbox, Azure Portal)
- ASOS