Microsoft Corporation

Azure Cosmos DB

Composite Score

7.8 /10

CX Score

8.1 /10

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What is Azure Cosmos DB?

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database service for modern app development with guaranteed single-digit millisecond response times and 99.999-per cent availability, backed by SLAs, automatic and instant scalability, and open-source APIs for MongoDB and Cassandra. Azure Cosmos DB offers a solution for modern apps and intelligent workloads by being very responsive with dynamic and elastic autoscale. It is available in every Azure region and can automatically replicate data closer to users.

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Azure Cosmos DB Ratings

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82 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+87 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Azure Cosmos DB?

5% Negative

6% Neutral

89% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Inspires Innovation
Saves Time

Feature Ratings

Average 88

High Speed & Online Transaction Processing

100

Big Data Analytics

100

Analytics and Reporting

100

High Availability

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support

Distributed Processing

Data Virtualization

Operations Management

Data Protection and Security

Data Monitoring and Administration

Systems Performance Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Availability and Quality of Training

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Azure Cosmos DB Reviews

James H.

Role: Operations
Industry: Transportation
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Best DB for managing data.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

Azure offers several cloud services that enable me to create cutting-edge, cloud-native business solutions. These services may all be accessed using a simple portal, a CLI, PowerShell for automation, APIs, and SDKs for application development. Backed by top-notch documentation and educational resources, as well as a large and passionate community of technology enthusiasts, to assist me in developing the ideal company solution.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The first thing I enjoy about Azure is its consumer-friendly user interface, which allows anyone new to Azure to administer Azure apps quickly. The second thing is that learning materials provided by Microsoft through the Microsoft Learn portal help a lot. I can say that even someone with good experience on Azure who gets stuck because he doesn’t know how to handle exception scenarios, can easily find a solution by going through Microsoft documentation in a very quick manner. The third thing is that the support team from the product side means from the Microsoft team is very beneficial by giving a few helpful tips on how to get started.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The documentation for the Azure Bot Service is a little complicated. Documentation should be enhanced, and more languages should be supported; now, it only supports node.js and C#.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The best part about Azure cloud services is that they offer preview versions of several of their services, as well as free versions of certain of their resources. They also provide us with free credits the first time I use particular services, and I can use cost management programs to maximize the use of my resources.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service

Nitin G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Healthcare
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2023

RU optimization is not efficient

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

The number of available API's give flexibility to choose SQL API vs Mongo DB API's etc

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Available connectors to create link service between CosmosDB & Synapse for both Operational & Transactional Data.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Costing approach

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you looking for Data platform which has the flexibility to switch between the multiple API's without opting for multiple different resources

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy

Kevin I.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Not for Profit
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Great extensibility and easy to setup in code.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

It is backed by microsoft and it has many webhooks you can integrate with through Power Automate apps in azure ecosystem, making it really easy to integrate with third party systems.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It was really easy for us to setup for our needs guiding ourselves with the documentation available.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing in particular, it has done the job greatly so far.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Evaluate what is the core of your data and how you could benefit from NoSQL databases, in our case we used cosmos db for logging purposes in our web applications, so it was really easy to setup. And the SDK that microsoft provides is a pleasure to work with.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Azure Cosmos DB Ratings

82 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+87 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Azure Cosmos DB?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

High Speed & Online Transaction Processing Also referred to as OLTP (Online Transaction processing). OLTP databases include strong support for CRUD operations and ACID compliance.

Big Data Analytics Use of big data analytics through integration into purpose-built big data tools or native capabilities, incorporating advanced security methods.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

High Availability HA DB designed for near-zero downtown by seamless replication of data between environments for uninterrupted real-time access and fail-over capabilities.

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support Includes OLTP and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing). Most OLTP systems support some level of OLAP but very few OLAP systems support OLTP.

Distributed Processing Data storage and processing is shared among many physical or virtual independents servers or sites for high volume data with seamless access to large datasets.

Data Virtualization Includes ability to create views joining disparate data sources without the need for persistence.

Operations Management Includes cost control, production management, and performance management.

Data Protection and Security Includes data encryption, data audit, and data compliance.

Data Monitoring and Administration Includes ability to continuously monitored data quality rules, as well as generate alerts to notify data stewards when they need to address an issue.

Systems Performance Management Includes monitoring, analyzing and configuration in order to optimize performance and increase efficiency.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

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Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

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Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Azure Cosmos DB Reviews

James H.

Best DB for managing data.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Nitin G.

RU optimization is not efficient

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kevin I.

Great extensibility and easy to setup in code.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

High Speed & Online Transaction Processing

Big Data Analytics

Analytics and Reporting

High Availability

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support

Distributed Processing

Data Virtualization

Operations Management

Data Protection and Security

Data Monitoring and Administration

Systems Performance Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Availability and Quality of Training

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization