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Ravendb vs CosmosDB

Alex Klaus on March 12, 2020

Selecting the right NoSQL document database When it comes to choosing a platform for a new application there is a lot to consider at dif...
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Aaron Bassett

Great post @aklaus ! Thank you so much for taking the time to write it up. If you ever want to do a comparison or try MongoDB Atlas you can use the coupon code AARON200 for $200 in credit, or send me a message if there's any way I can help 😊

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Gleb Chermennov

Great comparison.
I suspect Cosmos only support 3.x MongoDb API because later API versions are under license. AWS DocumentDb has the same problem.
I'm surprised with that many limitations of CosmosDb after multiple years of development

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Alex Klaus

Thank you Gleb!
You're right about MongoDB - they changed licensing 1.5 years ago (I didn't know about that).

MS dev teams usually aren't highly productive. Perhaps they so big that simply get bogged in internal bureaucracy. Another example could be MS SQL Server vs PostgreSQL, where the later outperformed SQL Server on many dimensions. Marketing, on the other side, is pretty good usually.