Azure DocumentDB is making use of the lock-free indexing technology developed by Microsoft Research and used in "Hekaton," the in-memory online-transaction-processing engine in SQL Server 2014.

Jumping into the growing NoSQL market, Microsoft has debuted a simple data store through the Azure cloud hosting service. The document database is well suited for organizations or startups that ...

Azure SQL Database has a new feature in preview called "Managed Instances" that offers greater compatibility between on-premises SQL Server and the cloud variant, again to make workload migration ...

Microsoft released multiple updates to its database offerings at its Build 2024 conference. One of the major updates to its database offerings includes the addition of vector search to Azure ...

At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, its latest NoSQL database offering and a competitor to Cassandra-centric companies ...

Microsoft provides full management support for the Azure DocumentDB service, as well as a 99.95 percent service level agreement. Microsoft describes the pricing for Azure DocumentDB at this page.

BOSTON , June 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Cloudant today announced that the Cloudant Data Layer, the company's distributed NoSQL database service, is now available on Windows Azure as part of a Microsoft ...

It said MarkLogic Enterprise NoSQL database platform on Azure provides this kind of flexibility by giving users a “single, actionable 360-degree view of their data in the cloud,” enabling ...

SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge. Written by Simon Bisson, Contributor Nov. 24, 2014, 4: ...