Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft's Cloud-Born Globally Distributed Database

Re:Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft's Cloud-Born Globally Distribu... by equasar on Sunday April 14, 2019 @01:32PM (#19660581)

I second this, Azure Table Storage is an amazing product, but would be a more powerful one if they enable indexing on all columns and also any automatic backup options, which are only available on CosmosDB Table, which makes me thing that Azure wants to push me to use CosmosDB if I want those features, since they don't have a roadmap for this for the Azure Table Storage.

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Re:Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft's Cloud-Born Globally Distribu... by manigandham on Sunday April 14, 2019 @06:22PM (#19662044)

Azure Table storage is a key/value store similar to Hbase, Cassandra, GCP Bigtable, AWS DynamoDB and others. It's a very stable and scalable design which is why everyone has some version of it.

There's no way to add indexes to this data model, it's all done by just writing your data in another table using the key you want and the value pointing to the original table's row. Perhaps Azure could offer secondary indexes like AWS DynamoDB does but it's probably too complex of a feature to add at this point, which is why it took DynamoDB several years to get to working GSI.

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Re:Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft's Cloud-Born Globally Distribu... by jbreiding on Sunday April 14, 2019 @09:38PM (#19662717)

Having the azure table storage be indexed into azure search with an azure function as the indexer delivers a pretty powerful alternative that isn't exactly batteries included, but close.

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Re:Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft's Cloud-Born Globally Distribu... by maltalex on Sunday April 14, 2019 @05:00PM (#19661686)

These are two very different products at two very different price points.

10TB of Table storage is 655$ 10TB of CosmosDb is 2500$

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