As developers look to harness the power of AI in their applications, one of the most exciting advancements is the ability to enrich existing databases with semantic understanding through vector search ...

Microsoft introduced a series of data services enhancements at its Microsoft Ignite virtual conference on Nov. 2. Among the new data services is a preview of SQL Server 2022. SQL Server had its last ...

During the opening day of the Build 2017, Microsoft has announced two new additions to its Azure SQL service with MySQL and PostgreSQL, and has also launched a new NoSQL database called Cosmos DB.

Here are four reasons why there's more to Microsoft's new database as a service than minimal management and greater flexibility At first glance, Microsoft’s new Cosmos DB Azure database seems like a ...

Cosmos DB also provides a variety of data models for storing data and APIs so that you can access your data as if it were SQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Gremlin, Spark, etcd, or Table (of the wide-column ...

“We want this to be the database of the future and to last for many decades to come,” Microsoft Technical Fellow Dharma Shukla told me when we talked about Cosmos DB, the new globally distributed ...

What’s emerging is a very different approach to data across competing cloud vendors. AWS has introduced powerful options for familiar data needs: Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, Amazon ...

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed distributed database that can be transparently replicated across regions while remaining highly performant and seamlessly scaling according to needs, making it great ...