Azure Cosmos DB Consulting Services
A database for building blazing fast, planet-scale applications with native support for NoSQL
Solutions that benefit from Azure Cosmos DB are any web, mobile, gaming, and IoT application that needs to handle massive amounts of data, reads, and writes at a global scale with near-real response times. Cosmos DB guarantees high availability, high throughput, low latency, and tunable consistency. Built from the ground up with global distribution and horizontal scale at its core. It offers turnkey global distribution across any number of Azure regions by transparently scaling and replicating your data wherever your users are.
What are the benefits of Azure Cosmos DB?
Turnkey Global Distribution
Cosmos DB enables you to build highly responsive and highly available applications worldwide. Cosmos DB transparently replicates your data wherever your users are, so your users can interact with a replica of the data that is closest to them.
Cosmos DB allows you to add or remove any of the Azure regions to your Cosmos account at any time, with a click of a button. Cosmos DB will seamlessly replicate your data to all the regions associated with your Cosmos account while your application continues to be highly available, thanks to the multi-homing capabilities of the service.
Always On
By virtue of deep integration with Azure infrastructure and transparent multi-master replication, Cosmos DB provides 99.999% high availability for both reads and writes. Cosmos DB also provides you with the ability to programmatically (or via Portal) invoke the regional failover of your Cosmos account. This capability helps ensure that your application is designed to failover in the case of regional disaster. Elastic scalability of throughput and storage, worldwide Designed with transparent horizontal partitioning and multi-master replication, Cosmos DB offers unprecedented elastic scalability for your writes and reads, all around the globe. You can elastically scale up from thousands to hundreds of millions of requests/sec around the globe, with a single API call and pay only for the throughput (and storage) you need. This capability helps you to deal with unexpected spikes in your workloads without having to over-provision for the peak.
Guaranteed Low Latency at 99th Percentile, Worldwide
Using Cosmos DB, you can build highly responsive, planet-scale applications. With its novel multi-master replication protocol and latch-free and write-optimized database engine, Cosmos DB guarantees less than 10-ms latencies for both, reads and (indexed) writes at the 99th percentile, all around the world. This capability enables sustained ingestion of data and blazing-fast queries for highly responsive apps.
No Schema or Index Management
Keeping database schema and indexes in-sync with an application’s schema is especially painful for globally distributed apps. With Cosmos DB, you do not need to deal with schema or index management. The database engine is fully schema-agnostic. Since no schema and index management is required, you also don’t have to worry about application downtime while migrating schemas. Cosmos DB automatically indexes all data and serves queries fast.
Battle-Tested Database Service
Cosmos DB is a foundational service in Azure. For nearly a decade, Cosmos DB has been used by many of Microsoft’s products for mission-critical applications at global scale, including Skype, Xbox, Office 365, Azure, and many others. Today, Cosmos DB is one of the fastest-growing services on Azure, used by many external customers and mission-critical applications that require elastic scale, turnkey global distribution, multi-master replication for low latency and high availability of both reads and writes.
Ubiquitous Regional Presence
Cosmos DB is available in all Azure regions worldwide, including 54+ regions in public cloud, Azure China 21Vianet, Azure Germany, Azure Government, and Azure Government for Department of Defense (DoD).
Secure by Default and Enterprise-Ready
Cosmos DB is certified for a wide array of compliance standards. Additionally, all data in Cosmos DB is encrypted at rest and in motion. Cosmos DB provides row-level authorization and adheres to strict security standards.
Significant TCO Savings
Since Cosmos DB is a fully managed service, you no longer need to manage and operate complex multi datacenter deployments and upgrades of your database software, pay for the support, licensing, or operations or have to provision your database for the peak workload.
Industry-Leading Comprehensive SLAs
Cosmos DB is the first and only service to offer industry-leading comprehensive SLAs encompassing 99.999% high availability, read and write latency at the 99th percentile, guaranteed throughput, and consistency. Globally distributed operational analytics with Spark You can run Spark directly on data stored in Cosmos DB. This capability allows you to do low-latency, operational analytics at global scale without impacting transactional workloads operating directly against Cosmos DB.
Develop Applications on Cosmos DB Using Popular NoSQL APIs
Cosmos DB offers a choice of APIs to work with your data stored in your Cosmos database. By default, you can use SQL (a core API) for querying your Cosmos database. By supporting the wire protocols of commonly used NoSQL APIs, Cosmos DB allows you to:
- Easily migrate your application to Cosmos DB while preserving significant portions of your application logic.
- Keep your application portable and continue to remain cloud vendor-agnostic.
- Get a fully-managed cloud service with industry leading, financially backed SLAs for the common NoSQL APIs.
- Elastically scale the provisioned throughput and storage for your databases based on your need and pay only for the throughput and storage you need. This leads to significant cost savings.