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Build Microsoft’s attempts to bring Cosmos DB to the masses continued at Build 2021 as Redmond threw emulators and freebies at developers, while the more sober world of Azure SQL Database was given the Ledger treatment. Microsoft’s distributed NoSQL database, Cosmos DB, has been around for a good few years and during that time the Windows behemoth has attempted to lure developers its way with a variety of tweaks, from a lowering of the cost of entry to adding serverless options for users with spiky traffic patterns preferring a pay-as-you-go approach. At the Microsoft’s Build 2021 event that serverless option became generally available for the Core, MongoDB, Cassandra, Gremlin and Table APIs. But it was the improvements aimed at persuading developers to take the system out for test drive that were the most eye-catching. A well as a preview for partial document updates, Microsoft also finally made a Cosmos DB emulator available for Linux and macOS, complementing the existing Windows incarnation.
