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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Federation consists of a collection of all SQL Azure database instances that contain partitioned data having the same schema. The T-SQL script in "How to Create a Federation with Customers, Orders and ...

Like its counterpart, Azure SQL Manages Instance, the idea here is to give users access to a scalable, cloud-based database service. To use Cassandra in Azure before, businesses had to either move ...