Cosmos DB
Cosmos DB is the multifacade, globally distributed database service offering of Microsoft on the Azure cloud. With its key benefits being scalability and availability, Azure Cosmos DB is a strong candidate for any cloud-based undertaking. Being a write-optimized database engine, it guarantees less than 10 ms latency on read/write queries at the 99th percentile globally.
Cosmos DB provides developers with five different consistency models to allow for an optimal compromise between performance and availability, depending on requirements. The so-called consistency spectrum defines various levels between strong consistency and eventual consistency or, in other words, higher availability and higher throughput.
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