Microsoft is making available previews of two new Azure services: Its DocumentDB NoSQL service and its full-text search service built on Elasticsearch.

Microsoft has added a new free tier for Azure Cosmos DB, its multi-model, globally distributed cloud database. Here's how it works.

Azure goes database crazy with one new NoSQL and two new SQL services There's also a nifty new browser-based admin shell.

Highly flexible and hugely scalable, NoSQL databases offer a range of data models and consistency options to suit your application ...

Cloudant's NoSQL database service on Windows Azure offers developers a great option for offloading data store operations so that they can focus on coding the next big app.” The Cloudant Data Layer is ...

Azure users want to use the G-series machines to run big database workloads. “As those workloads have grown, the desire for increased storage throughput has come up regularly,” he told me.

The company said there’s a growing need for agile database platforms in public cloud environments. It said MarkLogic Enterprise NoSQL database platform on Azure provides this kind of flexibility ...

Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options.