Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft's Cloud-Born Globally Distributed Database
After trying CosmosDB I put it down pretty quickly. I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;d recommend it to anyone.<p>Shockingly poor perf. Is CosmosDB really that bad or did we have it misconfigured? We&#x27;re not sure, the docs didn&#x27;t help us understand.<p>Random failures when connecting. Random errors (or worse, no errors but unexpected results) when querying.<p>Largely undocumented.<p>Painful interop with non-azure proprietary offerings.<p>Almost zero developer community. Most of the coverage of CosmosDB isn&#x27;t by developers, it&#x27;s by various MS affiliated blogs such as this one, which are more advertisements than resources.<p>Unfortunately CosmosDB seems to fit the Azure MO of investing more into sales&#x2F;marketing than into engineering&#x2F;support. I don&#x27;t know about the general atmosphere, but in the circles where I work, Azure and its various proprietary components are losing developer goodwill at a staggering pace.