Senior Data Engineer Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Consultant
Top 5
Mar 8, 2024
The initial setup is simple and straightforward. You can set up a Cosmos DB in a day, even configuring things like availability zones around the world.
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.
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.
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Feb 18, 2022
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.
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.
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB offers scalable, geo-replicated, multi-model support with high performance and low latency. It provides seamless Microsoft service integration, benefiting those needing flexible NoSQL, real-time analytics, and automatic scaling for diverse data types and quick global access. Azure Cosmos DB is designed to store, manage, and query large volumes of both unstructured and structured data. Its NoSQL capabilities and global distribution are leveraged by organizations to...
The initial setup is simple and straightforward. You can set up a Cosmos DB in a day, even configuring things like availability zones around the world.
Since it's a managed service, Azure backend handles scalability. From a user's perspective, we don't need to worry about scalability.
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.
The best feature is the velocity to make a query.
It is a NoSQL database.
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is fast, and its performance is good compared to normal SQL DB.
It works reasonably fast. You can retain the original format of the document as received by the third-party system.
It is non-SQL and helps to manage and manipulate data from the coding, rather than direct data and complex queries.
Cosmos DB is a pretty stable solution. I would rate it a ten out of ten.
It is a scalable product.
It's highly scalable and supports consistency, security, and multiple security options.
The biggest benefit it offers is scalability. It's easier to work with concurrency and updating data.
One of the nice features is the ability to auto-scale
The solution is stable.
It's not a specific feature that I value, but the scalability of this system is the most impressive aspect.
With Azure you can start small and grow as you need.
The product has a lot of useful features that are there and ready to use, it's also very easy to use.
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.
The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB were the general infrastructure, ease to use, and interface.
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.
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.
Cosmos DB is stable and easy to use.
The solution is extremely user-friendly and easy to navigate.
I would recommend Cosmos. It made our lives a lot easier. There's not a big learning curve in order to understand the structure and how to use it.
I like the scalability. There aren't any constraints for posting in the geolocation. I also like the SQL architecture.