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Re:Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database by tracker1 on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @02:22PM (#14310362)
From the intro page[1]... Many of the descriptions comparing to NoSQL are wrong. There are plenty of NoSQL options that have similar features, though it isn't universal, it can and often is there. Cassandra, for example, probably does just as well in multi-zone/dc concurrency. Consistency options are also similarly tunable. Cockroach 1.0 was announced earlier as well.

It's not that I don't appreciate the option. This seems far closer to what DocumentDB should have been earlier on. Though tbh, I think Storage Tables are already pretty useful.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introductio...

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Re:Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database by smithkl42 on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @04:21PM (#14311291)
Azure Table Storage? Uggh. Nasty. I've tried half a dozen times to use them, and every time I've given up. Great for write-only data that you never want to see again. Horrible for real-world querying.
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Re:Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database by dharmashuklaMS on Thursday May 11, 2017 @12:08AM (#14313771)
Cosmos DB has native extensibility to support various APIs Azure Table Storage "APIs" is one of them. If you are a Azure Table Storage customers, by virtue of accessing Cosmos DB using the Table Storage API, you can now get all of the capabilities of Cosmos DB incl. automatic indexing, global distribution etc.

Your Table Storage queries should be really fast with Cosmos DB since, Cosmos DB supports efficient indexing and query.

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Re:Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database by tracker1 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:06PM (#14318174)
Most of my usage has been mostly predictable single-key lookups, and some limited querying... The amount of data I've needed to put in it has always been fairly limited as well (generally under a million records per collection/table). It's a decent and really inexpensive option depending on your needs.
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