Azure Cosmos DB
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Gremlin API: Graph features and capabilities using Gremlin 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.
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Support Gremlin Bytecode to enable the fluent API of Gremlin.NET
Azure Cosmos DB Graph API doesn't support Gremlin Bytecode. Therefor it is not possible to use the fluent traversal API of Gremlin.NET.
Within the Azure Cosmos DB Graph .NET API (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/graph-sdk-dotnet) it is recommended to use Gremlin.NET. So it would be really nice if all features of Gremlin.NET would be supported.
See also the idea of a "better type-safe APIs fro Gremlin" (https://feedback.azure.com/forums/263030-azure-cosmos-db/suggestions/19340761-better-type-safe-apis-for-gremlin) within the Graph API feedback.
638 votesUpdate:
Bytecode support for Gremlin API is scheduled for public preview, December 2019.
Thanks.
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Support Cypher as a query language for Graph data
Add Cyhper (see http://www.opencypher.org/) as a language to query graph databases. Cypher is a human readable query languages to easily access a graph database.
472 votesThis is currently not on our road map. However, we will review this item in the future as we prioritize future releases.
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Implement a graphql provider
graphql {http://graphql.org/} is becoming increasingly adopted by front end frameworks (including mobile) for querying backend / API data.
Rather than having to translate each graphql query into a DocumentDB client call it would be optimal and very powerful to issue the query directly.
It would also provide enhanced query abilities over the existing REST approach.
295 votesApologies for the confusion on our part.
This is currently not on our roadmap. However, we will review this item in the future as we prioritize future releases.
Thanks for your suggestion.
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Gremlin queries from stored procedures
It would be nice to have the ability to execute Gremlin queries against the Graph API from a stored procedure. Ideally, this would also enable transactions.
141 votesThis is now on our road map and is planned for our Fall development semester.
Thank you for your suggestion and votes.
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Support for W3C SPARQL as a query language
SPARQL is a mature W3C standard for querying and updating graph-like data with well defined semantics and rich query capabilities.
116 votesWe don’t have any plans for SPARQL yet. We will keep this on our backlog and track user interest here as we prioritize upcoming work sprints.
Thanks.
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Unique indexes on Graph vertex/edge properties
I need to ensure global uniqueness for things like username/email/mobile number/etc. Since we no longer have traditional SQL, this capability is lacking. Allow me to define unique indexes so the write region has only one occurrence of a distinct value.
Ideally, this should also make FILTERED unique indexes possible.
67 votesWork for this feature has been started. Will update here when this feature becomes generally available.
Thank you.
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Support for Graph API in Data Migration tool
Looking for a way to do backup/restore or manual export/import of a Cosmos DB graph using Graph API - or equivalent.
I want to be able to restore state of a database while developing and found that Data Migration tool can do what I want, but does not support Graph API.58 votesThis is currently not on our road map. But we will revisit this again in our next review.
Thank you for your feedback.
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Microsoft join and support GQL
I think it would be a great benefit for Cosmos DB to support the new movement to get to a single Graph Query Language. Microsoft joining this movement might help in rapid evolution and acceptance of such a language.
Taken from https://neo4j.com/blog/time-for-single-property-graph-query-language/:
The time has come to create a single, unified property graph query language.
Different languages for different products help no one. We’ve heard from the graph community that a common query language would be powerful: more developers with transferable expertise; portable queries; solutions that leverage multiple graph options; and less vendor lock-in.
One language, one skill set.
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56 votesSupport for this is not on our roadmap but will mark as unplanned and leave open for future consideration.
Thank you for your suggestion.
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Support strategies on graph traversals
Currently, the graph traversal in Cosmos DB graph (usually referenced by 'g') does not support the 'withStrategies'-method that is normally part of a Tinkerpop implementation. 'withStrategies' allows e.g to enhance the traversal with custom vertex- and edge-filtering on every step (by a SubgraphStrategy).
40 votesThank you both for your feedback on this. We will put this under review and revert with an update after our next planning cycle.
Thanks again.
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add spatial support to Graph API
Enable the same support for spatial queries that exists for DocumentDb for graph elements. Similar to Neo4j Spatial.
34 votesThis is not in the Tinkerpop specification. We have no plans to add support to this just yet.
We will revisit this in the future however.
Thank you for you feedback.
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CosmosDB Graph API should support array types inside Gremlin properties
Currently, the CosmosDB Graph API does not support array types inside of Gremlin properties. This forces users to rebuild their graph models to match what the Graph API requires. The CosmosDB Graph API should support array types inside of Gremlin properties.
31 votesWe’ve evaluated this request and at this time we are deferring this from our road map. Will leave this as open so we can consider this in the future.
Thanks.
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Improve range() step costs
Graph API is nice, however in its current state it is unusable for large data sets due to high RU costs.
We are trying to implement paging for retrieving large amounts of data, however RU cost is unacceptable. Query "g.V().range(0,100)" costs 63.11 RU, however "g.V().range(2000,2100)" costs 338.06 RU even though it is same amount of data. Higher values are even more expensive meaning it's impossible to retrieve high amount of data without scaling up throughput.27 votesWork for this feature has been started. Will update here when this feature becomes generally available.
Thank you.
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Support Math functions in the graph
simple arthimatic (like computing %s) have to be done after extracting the data. pl support math step
25 votesWe are reviewing adding this capability. There is no ETA on if or when it will get on our roadmap but will update here when status changes.
Thank you for your suggestion.
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To be upto date version of TinkerPop in Azure Cosmos Graph DB
Apache TinkerPop Graph released v3.4.2 on 28th May 2019, but it seems that Azure Cosmos DB graph is still supporting the v3.2 which was released a year back from today. Azure Cosmos Graph DB should be upto date to support the latest version of Apache TinkerPop Graph.
TinkerPop v3.4 supports various features like having support of min and max operations on comparable like string.
21 votesHello and thanks for your request. We support 3.4 from a driver and connectivity perspective but there are a number of features we haven’t implemented such as min and max on non-decimal values.
These are currently on our backlog to implement so will mark this as unplanned for now which will keep this request open. When this moves off of our backlog we will mark this as planned and update you here.
Thank you.
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Support for schemas (full, mixed and none)
Support schema-full and schema-mixed modes like OrientDB. This way one can _design_ a graph with vertex and edge classes. This is extremely useful when modelling known domains and removes all burden to do this in code.
21 votesCosmos DB is intended to be a schemaless database so we don’t support schemas in general. Support for this is not on our roadmap but will mark as unplanned and leave open for future consideration.
Thanks for your suggestion.
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Document how to make & use Icon Sets in the Graph Data Explorer
You have a Gremlin Graph Intro video that includes use an icon set (the video shows an icon set for Marvel characters) - but there is very little info on how you can create this icon set - i.e. the video shows a vertice that represents the icon set, but it isn't clear what properties on the vertice do what - and also what encoding is used for the icon picture content.
14 votesWe are planning on documenting this. Will update here when this is available.
Thank you.
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Gremlin Graph: Add support for array values in group() and groupCount()
You should be able to group by an array of values. it is perfectly valid to do a group() or groupCount() like so:
g.V().groupCount().by(values('id','name').fold())
Other Graphs implementing Gremlin will give you a result, while CosmosDB fails with:
"Unexpected Error: Cannot resolve object to a primitive value."
13 votesWe have reviewed this request and at this time this is not on our road map.
Will leave this open and review this in upcoming cycles for our road map.
Thanks.
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Allow me to create global read replicas with different partition keys
There is really no way to come up with a single partition key for my graph database to satisfy all queries. Some queries would benefit from a different partition key, so why not let people create copies of their whole graphs with different partition keys and give them a way to intelligently route queries to the correct server?
one write region with partition key A
multiple read regions with partition key A
multiple read regions with partition key B
multiple read regions with partition key C
...In other words, there would still be a single write region but multiple…
13 votesThis is something you can do this yourself with change feed to replicate a specific range or partition key to a different account.
To learn more about ChangeFeed, start here, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/change-feed
Thanks for your suggestion.
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Gremlin console in Azure portal
Currently the option to do search queries in azure portal with gremlin is very slow. To avoid the setup of a local Gremlin console, it would be an improvement to have a gremlin console integrated into the portal. No need to specify connection string and keys, just ready to use and fast.
Would same time to each developer and be a frictionless no setup, just ready to use.
11 votesWe have reviewed this request and at this time this feature is not on our road map.
Will leave this request open so people can continue to vote and comment on it.
Thank you for your suggestion.
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Support lambda steps
Lambda steps (i.e. steps that take arbitrary groovy-functions as arguments) are currently not supported. We plan to migrate to CosmosDB but have a few traversals that contain lambdas.
10 votesSupport for this is not on our roadmap but will mark as unplanned and leave open for future consideration.
Thank you for your suggestion.
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