Azure Cosmos DB Table API Benefits

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Multi-master support for Azure Cosmos DB is now available in all public regions.

Azure CosmosDB table API is a key-value storage hosted in the cloud. It's a part of Azure Cosmos DB, that is Microsoft's multi-model database.

Azure Cosmos DB is a multi-model, globally-distributed, NoSQL database service provided by Microsoft Azure. It is designed to handle large-scale, high-availability, and high-performance data storage and processing requirements for modern applications. The Table API is one of the APIs supported by Azure Cosmos DB that provides a key-value store data model and is compatible with the Azure Table storage API.

Azure Table storage is a NoSQL key-value store service provided by Microsoft Azure. It is designed to store large amounts of unstructured data, such as structured data, logs, and media files, that require a flexible data model.

The benefit of the Azure Cosmos DB Table API as compared to Azure Table storage is:

D. supports a multi-master model

The multi-master model is a distributed system architecture in which multiple nodes can write to the same database partition simultaneously, without conflicts. In a multi-master model, all nodes are peers, and each node can accept read and write requests from clients.

The Azure Cosmos DB Table API supports a multi-master model, which means that it can handle simultaneous writes from multiple regions and ensure that the data is consistent across all regions. This is a significant benefit over Azure Table storage, which does not support a multi-master model.

In addition to supporting a multi-master model, the Azure Cosmos DB Table API also provides resiliency if an Azure region fails, supports partitioning, and provides a higher storage capacity. However, these benefits are not unique to the Table API and are also available in other APIs supported by Azure Cosmos DB, such as the SQL API, MongoDB API, Cassandra API, and Gremlin API.