Microsoft updates Cosmos DB with Cassandra support, better availability guarantees

Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s managed database cloud service, received several updates today aimed at making it useful for a wider variety of users. One key addition is a preview of support for using the Cassandra NoSQL database API to run operations inside the system.
This provides another tool for categorizing and analyzing data inside Cosmos DB, which already supports Gremlin, MongoDB, and SQL. Microsoft also announced the general availability of an Apache Spark Connector that allows businesse