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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Be able to do partial updates on document
Allow to push only values for some fields of a document and not need to read the whole document and save it to documentDB.
4,199 votesWork on this feature has started. Will update here when this becomes generally available.
Thank you for your suggestion and votes.
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[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.
3,848 votesReopening this user voice item as our support for Skip/Take (Offset/Limit) was only limited to single partition queries.
Update.
The newly released .NET SDK v3 now includes support for x-partition queries using Offset/Limit. You can learn more about v3 SDK and try it and provide feedback on our github repo here.
github.com/azure/azure-cosmos-dotnet-v3We will also be back-porting this functionality to our .NET v2 SDK. This work will begin shortly and we anticipate it to be released in September.
Once that is released we will mark this feature as complete.
Thank you for your patience and votes.
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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.
2,831 votesAzure Cosmos DB now supports GROUP BY queries! With GROUP BY, you can run queries that group your results according to the values of one or more specified properties. This feature is currently supported in Data Explorer, JavaScript SDK 3.4, and .NET SDK 3.3. Support for other SDKs will be available later this year.
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Autoscale Throughput (UR/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.1,791 votesWe’re excited to announce that we are making this a lot easier with our preview of Autopilot. With Autopilot, Azure Cosmos DB will automatically manage and scale the RU/s of your containers based on the usage. This eliminates the need for custom scripting to change RU/s and makes it easier to handle bursty, unpredictable workloads.
You can try out Autopilot in your Cosmos accounts by going to the Azure Portal and enabling the feature in the “Preview Features” blade.
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Add DocumentDB Emulator support for Mac OS X and *nix
The DocumentDB Emulator currently only supports Windows 10.
It would be great if support for Mac OS X could be added or documentation to run it on other platforms.
1,731 votesJust a quick update. Work on this feature continues but is taking longer than expected.
We have recently published guidance how how users who can run Windows in a VM whether on Parallels or Virtual Box with a Mac or Linux host can use the Cosmos emulator. Please feel free to use this as a workaround.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/local-emulator#running-on-mac-or-linuxWhen this feature is complete we will update here.
Thank you.
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Support cross-document joins
I have a many-to-many scenario that requires something like document-to-document joins.
In my app, users can "like" posts. That's three "tables" or entity sets. One each for users, likes and posts. I can't put the likes inside of either the users or the posts entities as sub-documents because there could be thousands of them. Even with 256KB documents I'd run out of room pretty quickly. I need a way to quickly get the top 100 posts that a user liked (and continue to paginate from there). I also need to go the other way. I need to get all the…
1,600 votesFor applications that require cross document join, please consider the Gremlin API: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/create-graph-dotnet, which has primitives for joins, traversals, and other graph operations.
We are evaluating expanding the SQL grammar to support graph functionality, which will provide the ability to perform cross-document JOINs. Please upvote this item to help us prioritize this work.
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Transaction support in client SDKs
it would be useful if documentdb transactions are supported in .net, rather than just storedprocs and triggers.
using trans = newtrans()
try
db.addsomething()
db.save() //ok
db.addother()
db.save() //fail
catch
trans.rollback
end try
end using1,275 votesThis is currently not on our roadmap. However, we will continue to review this item in the future as we prioritize future releases.
Thank you for your suggestion and for the comments.
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Offline version for mobile devices
Like cloudant and couchbase. To be able to have local storage which can sync with the cloud once we get a network conneciton.
It should be connection agnostic, use in the same manner if connected or not.1,170 votesWe are currently reviewing this for future inclusion on our roadmap. Will update here on status as this progresses.
Thank you for your suggestion
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Set based operations (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE)
It would be nice to be able to update parts of documents, delete documents, and insert documents using set based operations, similar to SQL.
e.g.
UPDATE Users SET IsActive = 0 WHERE LastLogin < '2010-01-01'
DELETE FROM Users WHERE LastLogin < '2009-01-01'
INSERT INTO table2 SELECT * FROM table1886 votesThere are multiple responses to this suggestion.
Support for SQL-like syntax for UPDATE, DELETE and INSERT INTO are not on our road map at this time.
However, the underlying functionality for an UPDATE, SET is essentially a PATCH. This functionality we are actively working on. See this User Voice item here to track for future updates. https://feedback.azure.com/forums/263030-azure-cosmos-db/suggestions/6693091-be-able-to-do-partial-updates-on-document
Thank you for your suggestion.
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Implement LIKE keyword
Add support for the LIKE '%%' SQL keyword and associated functionality.
793 votesAzure Cosmos DB supports the CONTAINS, STARTSWITH, and ENDSWITH built-in functions which are equivalent to LIKE.
We are planning to add support for LIKE since this is a top requested item, but meanwhile, please use the other equivalent keywords.
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Support Document Versioning
The ability to generate links to a previous version of a document would be a powerful addition DocumentDB that has many use cases.
In my case I need a self managed profile document that needs to be referenced at point in time to be tied to an event.
756 votesAzure Cosmos DB now provides the ability to access the change feed (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/change-feed). A common pattern to implement eventing patterns is
1. Store every version/change as a separate item
2. Read the change feed to merge/consolidate changes and trigger appropriate actions downstream.You can also expire old versions using TTL: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/time-to-live
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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.
698 votesUpdate on this item.
Bytecode implementation is now targeting the first half of 2020 to provide stability and performance improvements in the platform.
Apologies for the delay. We are continuing to work on this. Will announce here when this becomes available.
Thanks.
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[CosmosDB] Be able to manage Backup and Restore with Portal and APIs
Please provide the ability to manage backup and restore on our own.
Restore through support is not clear and inconvenient.
It turned out restore is only available through paid support plan.
This document https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/online-backup-and-restore#restoring-a-database-from-an-online-backup does not say it in any word.
The situation made our customer extremely unhappy.
508 votesWe are currently have on our road map this feature for Point-in-Time Restore (PITR) with continuous and on-demand backups. We will update the status here as this feature progresses.
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.
514 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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Add support for single entity retrieval instead of IEnumarable
Single \ First and so are currently not supported in Document DB
For example, the following code:
return client.CreateDocumentQuery<TEntity>(collection.SelfLink).SingleOrDefault(x => x.Id == id);
causes the error:
An exception of type 'Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Linq.DocumentQueryException' occurred in Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client.dll but was not handled in user code
Additional information: Query expression is invalid, expression return type Entities.Models.Hierarchy is unsupported. Query must evaluate to IEnumerable.
493 votesThank you for your feedback. I have discussed this in more detail with our team.
You are correct the workaround suggested to use .AsEnumerable().FirstOrDefault(). should not be a recommended work around. This way results in materializing all documents on the client first before getting the 1st document, which is not very efficient and the exact opposite of what you are trying to achieve.
Instead we recommend you use Take(1).AsEnumerable() and then .First() or .Single() or .FirstOrDefault() for Single() and First(). Take(1) is translated to SELECT TOP 1 and is processed server-side so more efficient than the previous suggestion and is what you are trying to achieve.
As to the original ask. The support for these operations can be done, but this work is not prioritized against the other work we want to deliver. I will move this back as unplanned but please note this is on our roadmap.
Thanks again…
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Linq provider should respect JsonSerializerSettings ContractResolvers
JsonSerializerSettings are now supported when creating the client, as per https://feedback.azure.com/forums/263030-azure-cosmos-db/suggestions/6422364-allow-me-to-set-jsonserializersettings
However, when using for example a CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver to store the data, the linq queries will fail if the properties on the POCO classes are Pascal case.
430 votesThis is currently not on our roadmap. However, we will continue to review this item in the future as we prioritize future releases.
Thank you for your suggestion.
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Add ability to rename databases and collections
It should be possible to rename databases and collections.
This feature is universal in all if not the vast majority of database products.
Lack of ability to rename anything makes it very hard for us to manage releases if we are adding new data. Currently, we have to create a copy of the existing database (which is a feat in itself, since this again is not core functionality), make the change there, and then re-point the website to the updated database. All this time, we are incurring extra costs and inconvenience.
Renaming things also allows us to correct typos, which…
430 votesThe ability to rename databases and collections is not currently something that is in our road map.
Currently the way to accomplish this task in Cosmos DB is to create a new collection with the changed name then use bulk exec or change feed to populate it.
Thanks for your request and input on this. We may consider this for a future planning cycle.
thanks.
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Add the ability to delete ALL data in a partition
In a partitioned collection, it would be useful to have the option delete all data with a given partitionId.
417 votesThis is not currently on our road map. However, we will look at this in our next feature review and will provide update on status.
Thank you.
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Support ORDER BY on the ST_DISTANCE spatial function
Ordering results by the ST_DISTANCE spatial function is currently not supported.
376 votesThis item was incorrectly marked as started. Actual work on this item has been deferred but is still planned.
Will update when this work is started.
Thank you.
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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.
307 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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