Microsoft is going to add a free tier to its CosmosDB offering. Officials accidentally announced its plan on March 4, but will make the announcement official on March 6. "You may have seen that we ...

And Nehme is gung-ho, asserting that developers should use Cosmos DB for any new Azure-based application. That's a bold statement, especially for a former member of the SQL Server team who worked on ...

Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a ...

What’s emerging is a very different approach to data across competing cloud vendors. AWS has introduced powerful options for familiar data needs: Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, Amazon ...