Microsoft continues to fill in the check boxes for its Azure cloud. Example: Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft’s take on NoSQL databases a la Couch or MongoDB, will be generally available April 8, the company said Thursday.
The beauty of these document databases is they can ingest JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) formatted information as is — no need for the mapping process that had to occur to pump them into relational SQL databases. Amazon Web Services added JSON support to its DynamoDB database last last year.
Microsoft announced DocumentDB in August.
Microsoft, which is trying to kit out Azure as a comfy home to a wide variety of workloads, supports a variety of homegrown and third-party databases including MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Azure and Oracle.
Microsoft also said Azure Search, which works across more than 50 languages, is now available. This “search-as-a-service” targets developers who want to add full-text search into their applications.
The company also unveiled a new premium encoder for Azure Media Services.
For a primer on DocumentDB check out the video below.
[protected-iframe id=”4448a4bcd0bd8c2c93244aa57b76ff78-14960843-26974994″ info=”//channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/Azure-DocumentDB-101-with-Ryan-CrawCour/player” width=”960″ height=”540″ frameborder=”0″]
