Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Valuable Features

Brandon Smith - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Developer at United Airlines

Partitioning is helpful because we use it heavily. Partitions are really nice because they help with the collection of data. Not only is it fast to recall the data, but when you partition it, you can pull the partition and then query the exact document from that partition. It helps with data recall.

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Lakshman Nimmakayala - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Cloud Architect at UBS Financial

The most valuable features for our organization with Azure Cosmos DB are multi-master capability for applications, automatic failover ensuring high availability, scalability, support for multiple data models, and low-latency access. Additionally, the seamless integration with microservices running in containers adds another layer of efficiency to our operations.

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SubodhThakar - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at eClerx

In terms of performance versus scalability of this solution, you don't need to worry as long as you have your initial numbers in place. This product works by using performance currency, which is the number of request units per second. Once the data is ingested, based on that, we can know how many users are going to access across the world in every day, hour, or minute. Once you have the ingestion versus consumer pattern identified, you can use this product to input all those numbers, like the volume of data for migration. 

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Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
March 2024
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GP
Principal Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution's read capacity and write access functions are very fast so users don't have to wait when fetching or displaying data on a screen. The main feature of an application is how it behaves toward the user. Users get uncomfortable when having to wait a long time. The solution's high-value data processing helps application performance data. 

The solution easily integrates with the Microsoft cloud and other Microsoft products like Azure Active Directory. We use cloud storage for databases so this integration is very beneficial. 

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Bahattin Yetismis - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at BE1 consultancy

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is easy to use and implement for application programmers.

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Divya Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at UST Global

It is one of the simpler databases to work with in terms of code management, tracking, and debugging due to its straightforward data storage and retrieval mechanisms.

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Lakshman Nimmakayala - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Cloud Architect at UBS Financial

Its wide support to the ecosystem is valuable. We can use this database with a lot of use cases, and that's one of the reasons why we prefer it. We have a lot of vendors, databases, and use cases, and wherever possible, we are trying to standardize databases. It is also secure.

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Ligia Godoi - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Delivery Manager at DXC

What I like about Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is that it's easy to do data ingestion and use the data in different applications. If you talk about business intelligence such as the Power BI tool, it's easy to connect because both are Microsoft products. With Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, it's easy to connect and do data ingestion.

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Aditya_Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Quality Engineer-III at Anheuser-Busch InBev

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is fast, and its performance is good compared to normal SQL DB.

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SD
Technical Architect at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

I have found Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB different from other SQL databases like RDBMS. It is non-SQL and helps to manage and manipulate data from the coding, rather than direct data and complex queries. It is quite flexible and offers a complete concentration on the coding part only. Even if one lacks expertise in complex queries, JSON and Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB are quite compatible with each other and makes the database options more enhanced and easy to operate. The additional SQL features allow you to go to Azure's portal and get the queries solved. 

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RP
Associate Principal - Cloud Solutions at Apexon

Cosmos DB makes life easier because if we want to use Mongo-type data, or Cassandra-type data, or maybe even just a simple cable storage-type data, then graph, there are multiple ways to do this. With Cosmos DB, we can put together a holistic solution when it comes to Azure security policies, Azure Monitor, and access control.

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AbhishekSingh11 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Solutions Architect at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees

It's not a specific feature that I value, but the scalability of this system is the most impressive aspect.

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SB
Founder at Druansh

The multi-model database is the most valuable feature. 

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VM
Cloud solution architect at 0

We use Cosmos DB for its key-value storage capabilities, while SQL Database is used for structured data.

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Raed Gharzeddine - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical advisor and software architect at Technical advisor and software architect

Cosmos DB solves certain problems that relational databases cannot handle. It's a multimodal NoSQL database, and it's very scalable. One of the nice features is the ability to auto-scale, plus Cosmos DB's API is easy to use. 

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AhmedRamy - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at TMentors,

The graphical representation of data is the most valuable feature of the solution. We did not face any glitches.

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RodrigoGalhardo - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Kultua

The best feature is the velocity of making queries. 

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Boingotlo Molefhe - PeerSpot reviewer
Azure IoT Developer & Solutions Architecture trainee (AZ-220) at Afrika Tikkun Services

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB's most valuable feature is latency. 

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VS
Principal Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Cosmos DB is a graph database. I could see the advantages when we implemented it because it didn't have much competition. MongoDB was doing it, but it wasn't a popular solution for graphs, structures, and hierarchy. The only competitor was Neo4j.

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VG
Student at KL University

The most valuable feature of the solution is that it makes it easy for users to access web applications like Visio while not being complex like AWS at the same time.

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AR
Developer at NA

There are a lot of security features that can be integrated with Cosmos DB. The solution is easy to use, and it is also easy to integrate with several things for database use cases.

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SP
Architect- Cloud/Automation at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product is simple to use. It is a NoSQL database. It is easy to commission the environment and use it.

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Chandrakant Deshmukh - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - Service Lines at Mastek Ltd

The solution is user friendly and Microsoft's technical support is good. 

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SaurabhSingh1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Sales Architect at Softline

The biggest benefit of Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is the general cloud model that Azure gives you. It provides more flexibility from a cost and data perspective. The solution is reasonable. Microsoft gives the best security solutions with zero trust protection.

With Azure, you can start small and grow as you need.

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KS
Associate Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

There's no specific feature of Cosmos. Basically, we try to query the database. Since it's unstructured data, all the related fields are stored as a single JSON. You don't have to go ahead and hit multiple tables, or multiple containers. Instead, you get all of those things, relationally, stored in a nested JSON — in one single container itself. This way, you don't have to go back and forth to different tables. There are pros and cons with this feature, but often it makes things easier for us.

I am impressed with the TTL (time to live feature) of Cosmos. If we need to perform a manual addition to a container, we just need to configure the time to live. And then based on that, it can be deleted.

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Joyal Benni - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at ProArch

The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is scalable with multiple master files. The performance of the solution is also good.

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KG
Sr. Engineer at ericsson

The product has a lot of useful features that are there and ready to use, it's also very easy to use.

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SJ
Enterprise Integration Architect at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

I'm still in the process of exploring all the features. We're continuously adding and releasing data, so there are several apps that have been useful to me.

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KopanoRamaphoi - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Rpc Data

Cosmos DB is stable and easy to use.

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KG
Associate Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

The solution's enhanced performance is its most valuable aspect.

The product is very stable.

We've found the solution to be scalable.

The solution is extremely user-friendly and easy to navigate.

The initial setup is quick and easy.

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it_user1337856 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I like the scalability. There aren't any constraints for posting in the geolocation. I also like the SQL architecture. 

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SK
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Cosmos is a PaaS, so you don't need to worry about infrastructure and hosting. It has various APIs that allow it to integrate with other solutions. For example, we are using a MongoDB-compatible API for customers, which makes it easier for developers on the team who previously used MongoDB or are accustomed to the old document storage paradigm. 

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FF
Cloud Solution Architect at FCamara

The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB were the general infrastructure, ease to use, and interface.

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JK
Practice Lead Microsoft Power Platform at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The product's most valuable feature is its ability to store documents and assets. You can execute a query over all the documents. It works reasonably fast. You can retain the original format of the document as received by the third-party system.

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Buyer's Guide
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.