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Re:Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft's Cloud-Born Globally Distribu... by llcoolv on Sunday April 14, 2019 @02:20PM (#19660831)
The core database is SQL Server and they also have PostgreSQL. This is what most people are using.
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Re:Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft's Cloud-Born Globally Distribu... by enitihas on Sunday April 14, 2019 @03:19PM (#19661148)
I should have been more precise. Cosmo DB is their core distributed database offering. Neither of SQL server of PostgreSQL is a distributed database. Both require applications to deal with the presence of multiple database nodes (sharding).
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