Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed database service designed to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of geographical regions with a comprehensive SLA. It supports document, key/value, or graph databases leveraging popular APIs and programming models: MongoDB, Graph, SQL, JavaScript, Cassandra, Spark, ETCD and Table.
Azure Cosmos DB provides the best capabilities of relational and non-relational databases: global distribution, horizontal scale of storage and throughput, guaranteed latency limits, high availability, multi-model + SQL + OSS APIs, and comprehensive SLAs.
Reference materials:
- Azure Cosmos DB Official Page
- Documentation: About Azure Cosmos DB
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Azure Cosmos DB: Planet-Scale NoSQL
