Released in may 2017 • Based on Document DB • Multi-model • Globally distributed • High availability • Mathematically viable: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cosmos-db-pushing-the-frontier-of-globally-distributed-databases/ • JavaScript engine embedded
same data at the same time. Availability Partition tolerance • Requests must succeed. • Node failure must not create a complete system failure. A distributed system can only guarantee 2 constrains at the same time, not 3 Eventual consistency?