Unleash the potential of your MongoDB and Cassandra apps by seamlessly running them on the Azure Cosmos DB service platform.

1. Migrate NoSQL apps
to Azure Cosmos DB
Unleash the potential of your MongoDB and
Cassandra apps by seamlessly running them on the
Azure Cosmos DB service platform.

2. TECHNOLOGY IS SHAPING HOW
BUSINESSES INNOVATE AND GROW
Engage your
customers
Empower your
employees
Optimize your
operations
Transform your
products
Digital transformation

3. GETTING AHEAD MEANS GETTING TO THE CLOUD
More than 80% of organizations
now adopt cloud-first strategies
Companies that embrace the
cloud grow 19.6% faster

4. Todays applications place new demands and data requirements on app developers. NoSQL
developers increasingly look to leverage cloud capabilities and fully-managed services, so
they can focus on application innovation.
A P P D E V E LO P E R S FA C E N E W C H A L L E N G E S
Respond to rapid, variable
scale and demand at global
scale
Deliver customer analytics
and business insights
Power real-time experiences Meet customers’
high performance
expectations

5. C U S TO M E R S E X P E C T
M O R E F R O M T H E I R
A P P L I C AT I O N S
Performance around the world
Greater customer choice and real-time experiences
Intelligent predictions based on complex data
Improved customer awareness through event-driven
scenarios
Responsive customer service through intuitive
interactions

6. Challenges with
NoSQL IaaS/on-
premises offerings:
Tedious set-up and maintenance requirements
Expensive and complex HA solutions
Achieving end-to-end security
Over-provisioning of resources to achieve scale
Unpredictable costs
NOSQL DEVELOPERS WANT
ENTERPRISE-GRADE MANAGED SERVICES

7. M O D E R N I Z E A N Y N O S Q L A P P
W I T H A Z U R E C O S M O S D B
Azure Cosmos DB:
• MongoDB API
• Cassandra API
• SQL API
NoSQL workloads
Azure Cosmos DB
AZURE COSMOS DB OFFERS NOSQL APP DEVELOPERS:
Fully-managed database service, born in the cloud
Turnkey global distribution
Low latency at any scale anywhere in the world
Easy migration from MongoDB, Cassandra, and other NoSQL
databases
Use of existing tools, code, and drivers
Automatic Indexing and partitioning
Enterprise-grade SLAs on high availability and latency
Native integrations for serverless architecture, advanced
analytics, and event processing
Optimization for real-time scenarios

8. A FULLY-MANAGED GLOBALLY DATABASE SERVICE BUILT TO DELIVER
EXTREMELY LOW LATENCY, HIGH AVAILABILITY, AND MASSIVE SCALE
TO REAL-TIME, PERSONALIZED RETAIL EXPERIENCES
A Z U R E C O S M O S D B

9. Azure Cosmos DB enables retailers to delight global customers with real-time
experiences, data-driven personalization, and fast and reliable services across
web and mobile.
P O W E R I N G G LO B A L S O L U T I O N S
Serve global
customers
Global data
distribution puts data
where your customers
are, increasing service
and transaction speed
Build real-time
customer experiences
Enable fast and global
personalization, product
recommendations, and
fraud detection.
Manage seasonal
sales spikes and rapid
inventory changes
Predictable and fast
service, even during
high-traffic sales
periods
Simplified
development with
serverless architecture
Fully-managed event-
driven micro-services
with elastic computing
power
Gain real-time insight
with Spark analytics
over operational data
Optimize business
decisions, and
accelerate
performance and
operations insights
Migrate NoSQL data
and apps
Migrate MongoDB,
Cassandra and other
NoSQL workloads

11. MongoDBTable API
Turnkey global
distribution
Elastic scale out
of storage & throughput
Guaranteed low latency
at the 99th percentile
Comprehensive
SLAs
Five well-defined
consistency models
Azure Cosmos DB
DocumentColumn-family
Key-value Graph
Core (SQL) API

12. B U I L D N O S Q L A P P S AT
G LO B A L S C A L E
TURNKEY GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION
• Available in all Azure regions
• Manual and automatic failover
• Automatic & synchronous multi-region replication
With Azure Cosmos DB you can automatically replicate all your
data around the world – across more regions than Amazon and
Google combined

13. LO W L AT E N C Y A P P S
AT A N Y S C A L E
GUARANTEED LOW LATENCY FOR YOUR NOSQL APPS
Serve <10 ms read and <15 ms write requests at the 99th
percentile from the nearest region while delivering data globally
INDEPENDENTLY AND ELASTICALLY SCALE STORAGE AND
THROUGHPUT ACROSS REGIONS
Elastically scale throughput from 10 to 100s of millions of
requests/sec across multiple regions
Support for requests/sec for different workloads
Customers pay only for the throughput and storage
they need

14. M O R E C O N S I S T E N C Y C H O I C E S
F O R Y O U R A P P
AZURE COSMOS DB OFFERS NOSQL DEVELOPERS A
CHOICE OF FIVE DEFINED CONSISTENCY LEVELS FOR
LOW LATENCY AND HIGH AVAILABILITY
Strong Bounded-stateless Session Consistent prefix Eventual
Simply select the model that best suites the needs of
your application

15. M U LT I - M O D E L A N D M U LT I - A P I
F O R N O S Q L D E V E LO P E R S
Easily migrate your existing NoSQL Application using the Mongo DB or Cassandra API. Use
the model that fits the needs of your app, and the APIs, tools and frameworks you are
already familiar with.
Azure Cosmos DB
Column-family Document
Key-value Graph
SQL
MongoDB
Table API

16. H A N D L E A N Y D ATA W I T H N O
S C H E M A O R I N D E X I N G
R E Q U I R E D
Item Color
Microwave
safe
Liquid
capacity
CPU Memory Storage
Geek
mug
Graphite Yes 16ox ??? ??? ???
Coffee
Bean
mug
Tan No 12oz ??? ??? ???
Surface
book
Gray ??? ??? 3.4 GHz
Intel
Skylake
Core i7-
6600U
16GB 1 TB SSD
Azure Cosmos DB’s schema-less service automatically indexes
all your data, regardless of the data model, to delivery blazing
fast queries.
Automatic index management
Synchronous auto-indexing
No schemas or secondary indices needed
Works across every data model
GEEK

17. E N T E R P R I S E - G R A D E S L A S
RUN YOUR NOSQL APP ON WORLD-CLASS INFRASTRUCTURE
Only service with financially-backed SLAs for millisecond latency at the 99th
percentile, 99.999% HA and guaranteed throughput and consistency
HALatency
<10 ms
99th percentile
99.999%
Throughput Consistency
Guaranteed Guaranteed

18. E A S Y TO M I G R AT E N O S Q L A P P S TO A Z U R E C O S M O S
D B
Make data modernization easy with seamless migration of NoSQL
workloads to cloud.
• Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB API, Cassandra API, and SQL
API bring app data from existing NoSQL deployments
• Leverage existing tools, drivers, and libraries, and continue
using existing apps’ current SDKs
• Turnkey geo-replication
• No infrastructure or VM management required
DynamoDB
MongoDB
Couchbase
CouchDB
Neo4j
HBase
Cassandra

19. D ATA M I G R AT I O N TO A Z U R E C O S M O S D B
AZURE COSMOS DB OFFERS MULTIPLE API OPTIONS
FOR MIGRATING APP DATA
1. Any NoSQL > Azure Cosmos DB SQL API
An end-to-end data migration experience across client and server, with performance tuning and advanced functionality. The
Azure Cosmos DB: SQL API is great for applications running on: MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, DynamoDB, Couchbase, and
CouchDB.
2. MongoDB > Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB API
Azure Cosmos DB: API for MongoDB is ideal for applications requiring minimal code re-writes.
3. Cassandra > Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API
Azure Cosmos DB: API for Cassandra is ideal for applications requiring minimal code re-writes.

20. E A S Y N O S Q L M I G R AT I O N W I T H
A Z U R E C O S M O S D B : S Q L A P I
Azure Cosmos DB:
SQL API
.NET
START USING AZURE COSMOS DB AS THE DATA
STORE FOR NOSQL APPS AND JSON DATA
1. Create new Azure Cosmos DB account in the Azure
Portal
2. Import NoSQL data to Azure Cosmos DB with
Azure Cosmos DB Data Migration tool and Azure
Cosmos DB SQL API
3. Manage and query JSON data in Azure Cosmos DB
with your favorite tools and drivers
SQL
DynamoDBCouchbase
HBase
Neo4j
CouchDB
MongoDB

21. M I G R AT E N O S Q L D ATA TO
A Z U R E C O S M O S D B
Build an app using .NET
Build an app using .NET Core
Build an app with Java
Build an app with Node.js
OPTIMIZE
Unlock your apps’ potential
Overview: Migrating to Azure
Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB: SQL API
Identify the best migration
approach for your apps
DISCOVER
Use Azure Cosmos DB Data
Migration Tool
Use Azure Cosmos DB SQL
API
Make the move
MIGRATE

22. E A S Y M I G R AT I O N W I T H
A Z U R E C O S M O S D B : A P I F O R M O N G O D B
Azure Cosmos DB:
API for MongoDB
MongoDB wire protocol
.NET
START USING AZURE COSMOS DB AS THE DATA
STORE FOR MONGODB APPS IN THREE SIMPLE STEPS
1. Create new Azure Cosmos DB account in the Azure
Portal and choose API for MongoDB
2. Import MongoDB data to Azure Cosmos DB with
Azure Connection String
3. Manage and query your data in Azure Cosmos DB
with your favorite MongoDB tools and drivers
MongoDB

23. M I G R AT E M O N G O D B TO
A Z U R E C O S M O S D B
Build a MongoDB API web app
with .NET and the Azure portal
Build a MongoDB API console
app with Java and the Azure
portal
OPTIMIZE
Unlock your apps’ potential
Overview: Migrating to Azure
Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB: MongoDB
API
Identify the best migration
approach for your apps
DISCOVER
Import MongoDB data
Migrate an existing Node.js
MongoDB web app
Make the move
MIGRATE

24. E A S Y M I G R AT I O N W I T H
A Z U R E C O S M O S D B : A P I F O R C A S S A N D R A
Azure Cosmos DB:
API for Cassandra
Cassandra wire protocol
.NET
START USING AZURE COSMOS DB AS THE DATA
STORE FOR MONGODB APPS IN THREE SIMPLE STEPS
1. Create new Azure Cosmos DB account in the Azure
Portal and choose API for Cassandra
2. Import Cassandra data to Azure Cosmos DB with
Azure Connection String and cqlsh COPY
3. Manage and query your data in Azure Cosmos DB
with your favorite tools and drivers

25. M I G R AT E C A S S A N D R A TO
A Z U R E C O S M O S D B
Build a Cassandra app using
.NET
Build a Cassandra app with Java
Build a Cassandra app with
Node.js
Build a Cassandra app using
Python
OPTIMIZE
Unlock your apps’ potential
Overview: Migrating to Azure
Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB: Cassandra
API
Identify the best migration
approach for your apps
DISCOVER
Import Cassandra data
Quick start video
Make the move
MIGRATE

26. TRY AZURE COSMOS DB FOR FREE
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/try/cosmosdb/​
MIGRATE DATA FROM MONGODB
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/mongodb-migrate
MIGRATE DATA FROM CASSANDRA
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/cassandra-introduction
MIGRATE DATA FROM ANY NOSQL DATABASE
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/sql-api-introduction