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Azure Cosmos DB

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10
Category
Azure Cosmos DB
7.7 /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. 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

Azure Cosmos DB Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

83 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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

90

Data Protection and Security

89

Systems Performance Management

87

Data Backup

85

Database Management

84

Data Replication

84

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 77

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

81

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Availability and Quality of Training

80

Business Value Created

79

Ease of Implementation

78

Ease of Data Integration

77

Vendor Support

76

Quality of Features

76

Ease of IT Administration

75

Breadth of Features

74

Ease of Customization

69

Azure Cosmos DB Reviews

Santanu Kumar D.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Food and Beverage
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Fantastic DB product by Azure, highly scalable

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

Cosmos DB is a fully managed, globally scaled DB solution provided by Azure. The features which differentiates this from other managed DB solutions is the various data models, low latency, high availability and data replication Cosmos DB offers, which is amongst the best in the market.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The best part of Cosmos DB is that it is fully-managed by Azure and can support almost all types of data models to store in the DB. It also provides high availability, data replication and low latency which is perhaps the best in the segment.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Apart from all the great features Cosmos DB provides, it comes with a cost which is on the higher side. So the cost and the initial complexities of Cosmos DB is something which enterprises and companies should take into account before making a switch.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Overall Azure Cosmos DB is a great product which can add value to comapnies and customers who are looking for a reliable, highly scalable, fast and feature rich managed DB solution.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features
  • Effective Service

Kunal D.

  • Role: Operations
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

The No SQL powerfull solution

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Azure Cosmos DB from other similar products?

Azure Cosmos DB is a multi-model, worldwide distributed database service that provides turnkey global distribution, instantaneous automatic scaling, and ensured low-latency and high availability. It supports a variety of data models, such as document, key-value, graph, and column-family models, and it enables simple and seamless access to data using well-known APIs like SQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Gremlin, and Table. which provides everything under one umbrella and it's versatility makes it best in the competiition

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

the low latency at a global scale is truly amazing feature so that we can enjoy the benifits of distributed database without any hassale

What do you dislike most about this product?

the cost is higher than any database offerings that are there since it is high latency so the cost is too much.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

make it more affordable so that anyone can pick deploy and start working on it. and also some beginir friendly documentation would be nice.

Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Respectful
  • Generous Negotitation

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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