Microsoft Corporation

Azure Cosmos DB

7.6 /10

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.

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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

+86 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?

7% Negative

6% Neutral

87% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Inspires Innovation
Saves Time

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Data Monitoring and Administration

Data Protection and Security

Systems Performance Management

Data Backup

Database Management

Data Replication

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 76

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Azure Cosmos DB Reviews

Mayank K.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2023

Good features but with less reliability

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

Multi Model Database Cosmos supports multiple API's including Mongo , postgres, nosql. Integration with multiple products including azure functions , search

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Multiple API's supported so can use all the features all in one place Integration with Azure Monitor and cognitive search

What do you dislike most about this product?

Reliability increasing RU from console ususally takes time more than hour sometimes and can block systems completely

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Mongo Atlas is better product

Pros

Saves Time
Security Protects
Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing

Cons

Slower Product Innovation
Less Reliable

Subrahmanyam S.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2023

Scalable and Versatile Database Service

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

Global Distribution: Azure Cosmos DB offers built-in global distribution with multi-region replication, allowing data to be seamlessly replicated and distributed across multiple Azure regions with low-latency access for users around the world. Multi-Model Support: Unlike many other databases that are designed for specific data models (e.g., relational, document, graph), Azure Cosmos DB supports multiple data models, including document, key-value, graph, column-family, and wide-column, providing flexibility for diverse application needs.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

data retrieval delays. SLA-Backed Availability: Microsoft guarantees high availability with financially backed service-level agreements (SLAs) for uptime and data durability, ensuring your application remains operational even in the event of failures. Multi-API Compatibility: Azure Cosmos DB supports multiple APIs, including SQL (DocumentDB), MongoDB, Cassandra, Gremlin (graph), and Table APIs, enabling seamless migration and integration with existing applications.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Complexity: Users might find Azure Cosmos DB to be complex to set up and configure, especially for those who are new to NoSQL databases or distributed systems. Cost: The pricing structure of Azure Cosmos DB can be perceived as complex, and organizations might need to carefully manage their resource usage to avoid unexpected costs. Learning Curve: Due to its flexibility and wide array of features, there might be a learning curve for users and developers who are not familiar with NoSQL databases or distributed systems.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Built-In Monitoring and Insights: Azure Cosmos DB includes built-in monitoring and insights through Azure Monitor, enabling you to track performance metrics, diagnose issues, and optimize resource usage. Operational Simplicity: Azure Cosmos DB manages various operational tasks, including backups, replication, failover, and patches, relieving you of many administrative burdens. Global Data Distribution: With Azure Cosmos DB's multi-master replication and global distribution capabilities, you can create applications that write data to multiple regions, enhancing data availability and disaster recovery.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Caring
Client Friendly Policies

Sarbpreet S.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Speed-up your heavy data Website

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

I have not used any NoSql Databases except this one so nothing that I can compare with. I have used Cosmos DB to store large before actually moving it to my final DB i.e. T-sql

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Cosmos DB is reliable and its container creating feature is very useful to store different sets of data.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I had difficulty setting it up and understanding. In 2020, there were not many resources to learn from but now I can see huge number of organizations using this hence, plenty of people to learn from,.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you want to save time while saving data to DB and you want to process it before saving then Cosmos DB is the best option to choose.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

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82 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

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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

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.

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

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

Data Backup Includes the creation of duplicate instances to recover from an unplanned data loss. Also, support for high volumes of data processing and data compression.

Database Management Supports multiple data types, data structuring, data retrieval, database customization, and multi-user access.

Data Replication Support for a real-time copy of the database in more than one system to facilitate access to the copy of data from multiple systems without any inconsistencies.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Mayank K.

Good features but with less reliability

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Subrahmanyam S.

Scalable and Versatile Database Service

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sarbpreet S.

Speed-up your heavy data Website

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Data Monitoring and Administration

Data Protection and Security

Systems Performance Management

Data Backup

Database Management

Data Replication

Vendor Capability Ratings

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization