Microsoft’s latest offering on Windows Azure is the non-relational DocumentDB – a fully managed NoSQL document database, and a search tool that Azure-based developers can utilise in their applications.

Director of product marketing at Microsoft Azure, Vibhor Kapoor wrote, “Azure DocumentDB is a managed NoSQL document database-as-a-service that provides the benefits of a NoSQL document database but also adds the query processing and transaction semantics common to relational database systems.”

Along with NoSQL applications from MongoDB, MongoLabs, Nodejitsu, Redis, and RavenHQ available in the Azure Store, customers have a wide spectrum of options to choose from. DocumentDB, is most certainly Microsoft’s answer to Amazon’s DynamoDB database service and its CloudSearch searching service. It is available on Azure and not as a standalone product.

Microsoft’s latest makes their intentions evident; giving AWS competition and looking to increase cloud revenues as well as user-ship is all part of chief executive Satya Nadella’s scheme of things.

Read more here

Back in Berlin! Data Natives 2022, in person and online - tickets available now!

(Image Credit: ashraful kadir)

Previous post

IBM and DESY Collaborate to Speed Up & Scale Up Storage Infrastructure
Next post

LinkedIn Mines In-House Data Pool to Discover Which Internships Will Lead to Jobs

Related Posts

The Dutch Police Have Utilized A Deepfakes Video To Appeal For Information On The 2003 Murder Of A Young Boy. According To Authorities In Rotterdam, It Is A &Quot;World-First&Quot; Inquiry Using Artificially Altered Video.
Artificial IntelligenceFeaturedNews

Roboticists Pushed The Limits Of An All-Terrain Vehicle Equipped With Sensors To Gather Data For Future Self-Driving Atvs.
NewsData ScienceFeaturedTransportation & Logistics

Detecting Deepfakes Are Crucial And Researchers Are Continuously Looking For New Methods.
Artificial IntelligenceFeaturedNews

Cnns Were Used To Identify Cells In Photos Including Only Single Type Of Cell, Yet The Ml Method Capable Of Counting Cells Eliminates Human Involvement.
Machine LearningData ScienceFeaturedNews

Researchers From China And The Us Developed An Ml Model That Is Able To Detect Pmus (Professional Malicious Users) That Publish Fake Negative Reviews.
Machine LearningFeaturedNews

Feeling Nervous Before A Job Interview? Google Interview Warmup Will Help You To Practice Beforehand. Ai In Recruitment Is An Opportunity That Cannot Be Ignored For Enterprises Today.
Artificial IntelligenceFeaturedNews