By Renato Losio
Publication Date: 2025-12-13 09:24:00
During the recent Microsoft Ignite conference, the cloud provider announced the early preview of Azure HorizonDB, a managed Postgres-compatible database service for enterprise workloads.
According to the announcement, HorizonDB will support up to 3072 vCores across primary and replica nodes, and the auto-scaling shared storage supports up to 128TB databases, claiming sub-millisecond multi-zone commit latencies. Affan Dar, VP of Engineering at Microsoft, and Charles Feddersen, partner director at Microsoft, write:
Developers benefit from the robust Postgres ecosystem and seamless integration with Azure’s advanced AI capabilities, while enterprises can gain a secure, highly available, and performant cloud database to host their business applications.
With the new AI Model Management feature, the database integrates Microsoft Foundry models directly into the customer database and claims to provide up to 3x faster vector search with advanced DiskANN filtering compared…
