There is a lot of data out there, and much of it doesn’t need to be stored in heavyweight relational databases, with complex query languages. That is particularly true of modern cloud applications and ...

Microsoft is making available in preview form on August 21 two new Azure cloud services: A NoSQL database service and a full-text search service. The Azure DocumentDB NoSQL service was built by ...

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Enter the latest of the NoSQL contenders: Microsoft. Yesterday, the folks in Redmond announced new features for Microsoft Azure, two of which hint at Microsoft seeing a rich market for NoSQL ...

Microsoft is introducing a new globally distributed database, called Azure Cosmos DB, at Day 1 of its Build 2017 developer conference in Seattle. Azure Cosmos DB is a superset of Microsoft's existing ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

New Azure Data Tables libraries and beta Azure Monitor libraries highlight the latest update to the Azure SDK. As part of the June 2021 release, Microsoft announced seven Stable updates and 18 ...