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Microsoft Corporation

Azure Cosmos DB

Composite Score

7.6 /10

CX Score

7.8 /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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Awards & Recognition

Azure Cosmos DB won the following awards in the Transaction Data Store category

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3 Top Rated Capabilities

13 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

0 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2024

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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+88 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

5% Neutral

90% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Inspires Innovation
Saves Time

Feature Ratings

Average 89

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

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Azure Cosmos DB Reviews

Rituja N.

Role: Finance
Industry: Banking
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Submitted Dec 2023

Good speed, reliability, and scalability

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

Azure Cosmos DB differentiates itself from other similar products through its multi-model, globally distributed database service that offers high availability, low latency, and automatic scaling across multiple regions. It supports different data models such as document, key-value, graph, and column family, providing flexibility for diverse data storage and retrieval requirements.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Azure Cosmos DB, is its exceptional speed of data ingestion, reliability, and high availability

What do you dislike most about this product?

The data manipulation capabilities of Azure Cosmos DB have at times presented challenges, which is an aspect that I find particularly unfavorable about this product

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Familiarize yourself with the Well-Architected Framework best practices for Azure Cosmos DB, which ensure efficient, reliable, secure, and cost-optimized solutions. Understanding these best practices can help in deploying high-quality, stable, and efficient cloud architectures

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Unique Features

Vinod P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Healthcare
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Dec 2024

HIghly available & scalable with complex costing

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

Cosmos DB has a distribution available across glob and it has support for multiple models types including key value, graph, column store etc. Also it have best SLA since it is backed by Microsoft. Also scalabllby of azure cosmos DB is really amazing and it scales smoothly based on requirement.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite part of cosmos db its consistency, in fact is offers as many as five levels of consistency, which means you can configure your cosmos database to strike a perfect balance between consistency and performance. This is very critical and usually not much NOSQl databases provide this feature. Also if you are part of azure ecosystem then cosmos can be integrated with them pretty naturally without much additional configurations.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Cosmos db has a confusing pricing structure, it charges based on RUs utilized. This means you have be pretty accurate in your estimations on number of hits that database will get and this will dictate the final price of the cosmos db. I really wish they have a simpler pricing structure.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Azure cosmos db is higly scalable and available database. Also its performance is almost guaranteed since its supported by Microsoft. But Cosmos DB has very confusing pricing structure, If you do not estimate correctly you might end paying way more that you had expected. It is complex and not ideal for smaller teams. If you are part of larger organization and already have azure ecosystem then cosmos DB would be a natural choice for you and would be the best as well.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Cons

Vendor's Interest First
Less Transparent

Tarun B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Retail
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2023

Best Database Offering for developing Solutions

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

Simply create a Database from console , hardly requires any knowledge Start visualising the data in the console or through the queries Support of Azure data factory to migrate data between databases RU management is really cool Support for Nosql, Mongo , Postgres is highly beneficial

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Request Unit, Request Charge management is really cool

What do you dislike most about this product?

A bit unstable sometimes , takes time to query the data when under little bit of load

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Its simple to use create DB and start developing solutions

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Inspires Innovation

Cons

Vendor Friendly Policies

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Awards & Recognition

Azure Cosmos DB Ratings

82 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 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

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

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.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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.

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 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

Rituja N.

Good speed, reliability, and scalability

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Vinod P.

HIghly available & scalable with complex costing

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Tarun B.

Best Database Offering for developing Solutions

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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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

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization