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SQL API: Query language features, syntax using SQL API, indexing, any other core features in Azure Cosmos DB.

Gremlin API: Graph features and capabilities using Gremlin API.

Cassandra API: Features and capabilities using Cassandra API.

MongoDB API: Features and capabilities using MongoDB API.

Table API: Features and capabilities using Table API.

Etcd API: Features related to using etcd as a configuration store for Kubernetes.

Built-in Apache Spark: Features related to built-in Apache Spark in Azure Cosmos DB.

Built-in Notebooks: Features related to built-in Notebooks in Azure Cosmos DB.

SDK: Features related to Azure Cosmos DB SDKs for SQL API.

Change Feed: Features related to Change Feed.

Management: All management features, backup/restore,monitoring, ARM, PowerShell and CLI.

Portal: All features for Azure Portal and Cosmos DB Explorer.

Emulator: Features related to the Azure Cosmos Emulator.

Other: Features not related to any other category.

Security:
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Metrics, monitoring, alerts,and diagnostics features.

Server-side: Stored procedures, Triggers,and User-Defined Functions.

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  1. [DocumentDB] Allow Paging (skip/take)

    Allowing paging would be huge. Btw, Thank You for rolling out this feature at all! It looks wonderful! Can't wait to try it! However, I won't be able to use it for actual work projects until it supports paging and sorting.

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    135 comments  ·  SQL API  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  AdminAzure Cosmos DB Team (Product Manager, Microsoft Azure) responded

    Work on making this feature available in all SDK’s as well as cross-partition is now available so marking this as complete.

    The team has seen your feedback regarding performance for queries with especially large OFFSET values and is currently working on optimizing these by better utilizing the index and further improving performance. These optimizations will be released shortly.

    For more information on Offset/Limit please see, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/sql-query-offset-limit

    Thank you.

  2. Standalone local instance

    I would be great to have a standalone version for offline development and unit testing. Something like Storage Emulator.

    3,787 votes
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    94 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  AdminAzure Cosmos DB Team (Product Manager, Microsoft Azure) responded

    We’re excited to announce the public preview of the DocumentDB Emulator (https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/documentdb-emulator-for-local-development-and-dotnet-core-support/), which provides a local development experience for the Azure DocumentDB service. Using the DocumentDB Emulator, you can develop and test your application locally without an internet connection, without creating an Azure subscription, and without incurring any costs.

    This has long been the most requested feature on the user voice site, so we are thrilled to roll this out everyone that’s voted for it. Please let us know if you have any feedback, questions or suggestions.

    Thank you,
    Aravind Ramachandran
    Azure DocumentDB

  3. Add Group By support for Aggregate Functions

    We're really happy about the new aggregate functions that recently were announced. But without Group By support they fall short and will leave many disappointed. Please add Group By support as well.

    2,833 votes
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    92 comments  ·  SQL API  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  4. Add support for aggregate functions like Count, Sum, and Avg along with Grouping

    It would be great to have some baseline aggregation functions support without having to return all the records and then perform aggregates on them in code.

    2,611 votes
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    83 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  5. Autoscale Throughput (RU/s)

    Depending on the average amount of incomming requests/ required RU's, (or other parameters,)
    I would like to autoscale the througput(RU/s) of a collection.

    1,851 votes
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    78 comments  ·  Management  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  6. Provide support for DISTINCT

    Need to provide support for SELECT DISTINCT xyz FROM c.

    1,621 votes
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    77 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  7. Backup Solution for DocumentDB

    It seems that there is no backup for DocumentDB. You should provide a backup solution for DocumentDB.

    1,261 votes
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    37 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  8. Batch Operation Support

    Document DB should support batch operations in REST API and SDK level. It would be very useful to insert 1000 entities in one transaction.

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    22 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  9. DocumentDB Free Tier

    DocumentDB offering should provide a free tier for dev/testing.
    I'm maintaining the MongoDB provider for NEventStore (https://github.com/NEventStore/NEventStore.Persistence.MongoDB) and would try to build a DocumentDB Persistence Provider.

    Would be even better to have an "open source" subscription for oss projects on azure (dev/testing)!

    1,118 votes
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    18 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  10. Manage Azure DocumentDB using PowerShell

    We need a PowerShell module for managing Azure DocumentDB

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    42 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  11. Allow me to set JsonSerializerSettings

    Today I have to use JsonProperty or JsonConverter attributes to decorate my objects one property at a time.
    This is painful when dealing with large objects and error prone.
    It would be a much better idea to support the use of JsonSerializerSettings to set global behavior for JSON.NET ... just like WebApi and ASP.NET does today.

    1,073 votes
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    completed  ·  26 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  12. Allow Database Level Pricing

    I am looking to convert an application from MongoDB to DocumentDB as I would prefer a managed solution but the collection pricing is absurd. The current model has 1 or 2 collections with 10+ GB of data that will grow at high rates but there are another 30 collections or more with most of them having only 10-20 records. Paying a minimum of $25 per collection is out of the question especially for dev workloads. The pricing model would change your development behaviour to just stuff everything in the same collection but then you loose a lot of the ability…

    976 votes
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    50 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  13. "Order By" in queries

    I cannot find any documentation on what order the data from a query will return.
    I would love to be able to explicitly specify an "order by" clause to dictate that order

    945 votes
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    35 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  14. Partitioned Collections with < 10k RU/s

    Please allow partitioned collections with fewer than 10k RU reserved.

    I really would like to use partitioned collection but according and the pricing model $6/month for each 100 RU seems fair. But the minimum RU/s for partitioned collections are > 10.000 RU/s which is min $600 a month.

    752 votes
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    8 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  AdminAzure Cosmos DB Team (Product Manager, Microsoft Azure) responded

    We are pleased to announce that partitioned collections have an entry point 75% cheaper than before. Instead of provisioning 10,100 RU/sec as a minimum, you can now provision a partitioned collection at 2,500 RU/sec and scale in increments of 100 RU/sec. Partitioned collections enable you to dynamically scale your provisioning from as low as 2,500 RU/sec to millions of RU/sec with no limit on storage consumption.

    Please download SDK 1.12.0+ or use the Azure Portal to provision these collections.

    -DocumentDB team

  15. Support OData Protocol

    Since OData is a standard API supported by Microsoft and intrinsically supports JSON, and DocumentDB is JSON-based, it's a good fit. A standard protocol would also greatly increase interop potential, like SQL, which you are supporting.

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    10 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  AdminAzure Cosmos DB Team (Product Manager, Microsoft Azure) responded

    The Table API for Azure Cosmos DB uses ODATA as the primary protocol for querying. See
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/table-introduction
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/tutorial-query-table
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/tutorial-develop-table-dotnet

    Applications written for Azure Table storage can take advantage of premium capabilities like provisioned throughput, single-digit millisecond latency, global distribution, and automatic secondary indexing.

  16. Positional array update via '$' query support

    I have posted a question in stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45057385/azure-cosmosdb-mongodb-update-fields-of-an-specific-element-of-an-object-in-an) related to this issue.

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    29 comments  ·  MongoDB API  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  17. Have DocumentDB in Brazil datacenter

    Enable DocumentDB in Brazil Datacenter

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    4 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  18. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

    DocumentDB should support Transparent Data Encryption.

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    32 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  19. Unique constraint on document properties

    While document ID's are unique, I would like a unique constraint on a given property as well. Today, the only ways I see to accomplish this is either with a client-side query or a pre-trigger (also requiring a query).

    I'd like a "unique" constraint to be applicable for given property names within a collection.

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  20. Allow multi Order By

    From what I see it is impossible to run a query with more than one column in the Order By.

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    20 comments  ·  SQL API  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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