In rare cases, a region-wide outage can impact the availability of Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters in that region. To safeguard against such outages, users can opt for geo-redundant backup for their Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters. This feature allows users to store cluster backups in a different Azure region, providing an extra … Read more
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the Data API Generator for Azure Cosmos DB. This open source project provides REST and GraphQL endpoints for Azure databases and local stores. The Data API Builder (DAB) aims to simplify the process of exposing GraphQL endpoints to Azure Cosmos DB collections, allowing for relational queries, filtering, mutations, … Read more
Cross-region disaster recovery for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB allows for the creation of a replica cluster in another region that stays up to date with the primary cluster. In the event of a primary cluster outage, this replica can be promoted to become the new read-write cluster in a different region. This replica can … Read more
Microsoft unveiled several updates to its database offerings during the Build 2024 conference. One major update is the addition of vector search to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, a non-relational database service within the Azure Cosmos DB database offering. Non-SQL databases eliminate SQL limitations for improved speed, flexibility, and scalability. Azure Cosmos DB supports various … Read more