Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database with scaling at the click of a button. You can scale Azure Cosmos DB across 30+ Azure regions spread across the globe.
It's multi-model, hence it supports document storage, table storage, and graph values all together in a single database. Azure provides excellent throughput, latency, availability, and consistency guarantees with comprehensive service level agreements (SLAs) which, as of now, no other database provider is offering.
SLAs represent the promise on paper. That means Microsoft Azure offers you upper bound time for various features such as latency, failover, and so on. For more information, visit https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/cosmos-db/v1_0/.
Here is the featured and introductory representation of Azure Cosmos DB:
Here are the key features and capabilities Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB offers:
- Turnkey global distribution
- Multilevel data models
- Scale on demand
- High response with less latency
- High availability
- Consistency models
- Money-back guarantee with SLA
Let's look over each of them in brief.