My biggest takeaway from the Microsoft Future Decoded conference 2017 was Cosmos DB. It helped that the demo was as smooth as a Teflon coated otter but the presentation slides give you a sense of what was going on... and it blew me away.
Globally scalable. Obviously. Who can't scale globally these days?!
Multi-Model. Obviously, Who can't offer a wide range of data models to fit your exact data needs?!
Guaranteed Latency. Pardon? What now?
Guaranteed sub 30-minute 10tb data replication? Nice. I could use that.
99.99% availability? A flexible choice of consistency on a per-request basis? Cost metrics as-you-query? Event-driven integration? Those last few were actually part of the demo - 1. make an eventually-consistent query 2. query is automatically measured by cost 3. add an event to save data in a new db 4. re-query at approximately 0.16 the cost of the original. Done. Took about 4 minutes with no service downtime. Did the fickle demo-gods just smile on the room, or is the service just so bullet-proof that you can alter the service on the fly with confidence? I'll definitely be running my own proof of concept over the coming weeks to find out.
Global Scale, Multi-Model, Guaranteed Latency
https://www.futuredecoded.com/session/9b406559-e9a8-e711-80c2-000d3a2269dd
