Cosmos DB

  • Enterprise-grade non-relational database
  • Supports many data models (graph, document, table, column-family)
  • Compatible with established APIs (Cassandra, MongoDB, Gremlin, Etcd) for different data storage, but cannot change once selected and no mix-n-match
  • Select the data consistency you need
  • Easy to scale worldwide
  • Sub-10 ms latency
  • Service Level Agreements for throughput, latency, availability and consistency

Table Storage

  • Azure Storage account
  • 5 PB maximum limit
  • $0.045 per GB - cheapest data storage option on Azure
  • Plus pay for operations - $0.00036 per 10,000 transactions
  • Service Level Agreement shockingly poor (10 seconds for a query)

Blob Storage

  • Azure Storage account
  • 5 PB maximum limit ● $0.0208 per GB - cheapest data storage option on Azure ● Supports premium, hot, cool, archive access tiers
  • Supports “reserved capacity” - ~$0.014 per GB for 100TB/3 years
  • Supports blob indexing
  • Plus pay for operations - $0.00036 per 10,000 transactions
  • Service Level Agreement shockingly poor (2 seconds per MB)

File Storage

  • Azure Storage account
  • 5 PB maximum limit
  • $0.06 per GB - cheapest data storage option on Azure
  • Standard and premium options
  • Service Level Agreement shockingly poor (2 seconds per MB)