Enter the latest of the NoSQL contenders: Microsoft. Yesterday, the folks in Redmond announced new features for Microsoft Azure, two of which hint at Microsoft seeing a rich market for NoSQL ...

Figure A: The revamped Microsoft Azure portal page. Image: Screenshot by Tony Patton Data is a forever growing and seemingly never-ending organizational resource (anyone else tired of hearing about ...

Other database updates include the availability of an Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI and the addition of Copilot capabilities to Azure SQL DB. Microsoft released multiple updates ...

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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 like ...

Microsoft is making available in preview form on August 21 two new Azure cloud services: A NoSQL database service and a full-text search service. The Azure DocumentDB NoSQL service was built by ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

Microsoft announced the general availability this week of Azure DocumentDB, its NoSQL database as a service for developers and IT pros. The Azure DocumentDB service is designed to store document data ...