"We want this to be the database of the future and to last for many decades to come," Microsoft's Dharma Shukla told me when we talked about Cosmos DB, the new globally distributed database the ...

Cosmos DB is in serious trouble thanks to ChaosDB, a critical vulnerability in the Azure cloud database. It enables anyone to take remote control of your databases. Fortunately, there is a fix.

Azure’s Cosmos DB is one of the platform’s foundations, powering many of its key services. Designed from the ground up as a distributed database, it implements a set of different consistency ...

Cosmos DB marks Microsoft's full-on plunge into the world of NoSQL/non-relational databases. Built as the back-end database for Microsoft's own Web properties, it's available to the public as an ...

Azure Cosmos DB is an easy-to-use, scalable, NoSQL database available in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. Cosmos DB is hosted on SSDs and hence data storage and retrieval is very fast.

Today at Microsoft’s Build Conference in Seattle, the company launched Azure Cosmos DB – a brand new schemaless database system designed for large, globally-distributed, data-intensive ...

New ways to bring MongoDB data and apps to Azure Cosmos DB Your email has been sent Branded as Microsoft’s “planetary scale database,” Cosmos DB is one of Azure’s foundational services ...

Put simply, the Cosmos DB team was tasked with determining how to build a globally distributed database for the cloud, while serving the needs of internal Microsoft customers.