Microsoft launched a number of updates to its database choices at its Construct 2024 convention.
One of many main updates to its database choices contains the addition of vector search to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, which is a non-relational database service, is part of the bigger Azure Cosmos DB database providing, a distributed database which implements a set of various consistency fashions enabling customers to commerce off efficiency towards latency of their functions.
Basically, NoSQL databases eliminate SQL databases’ constraints of information sorts and consistency with the intention to obtain extra pace, flexibility, and scale.
Azure Cosmos DB helps working with completely different knowledge fashions, together with APIs for MongoDB and Apache Cassandra. The database additionally has a taste of PostgreSQL.
Final 12 months at Construct, Microsoft had launched vector search to Cosmos DB, constructing on the corporate’s Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore service.
The vector search in Cosmos DB for NoSQL, in response to the corporate, is powered by DiskANN—a set of scalable approximate nearest neighbor search algorithms that assist real-time adjustments.
As well as, the corporate additionally made the Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI usually out there with the intention to carry AI capabilities to knowledge in PostgreSQL.
“This allows builders preferring PostgreSQL to plug knowledge straight into Azure AI for a simplified path to leverage LLMs and construct wealthy PostgreSQL generative AI experiences,” the corporate mentioned in a press release.
Moreover, the corporate mentioned it’s working so as to add an embeddings era function inside its Azure Database for PostgreSQL providing. The brand new function, which is at the moment in preview, can generate embeddings inside the database.
Additional, the corporate mentioned it was including extra capabilities to Copilot inside databases to assist builders, together with including the flexibility to offer summaries of technical documentation in response to person questions inside Azure Database for MySQL.
In March, the corporate introduced a personal preview of Copilot in Azure SQL Database with the intention to supply pure language to SQL conversion, together with self-help for database administration.
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