Databases are the life blood of big businesses. Companies use this key software to store and parse sales and product information. Databases underlie inventory and manufacturing systems.
And that is probably why Microsoft executives spent a big chunk of time at its annual Build tech conference in Seattle talking up new database options for use in the Microsoft Azure public cloud.
First up: Azure Cosmos DB, a new and distributed database that grew out of the company’s earlier DocumentDB, a NoSQL database. For non-techies, SQL (which stands for structured query language) is the standard way users build and interact with relational or SQL databases.
Read more about it here.
