Azure Cosmos DB APIs

Choose the right API for your application's needs.

Core APIs

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Core (SQL) API

The default and most powerful API. Offers rich query capabilities with SQL syntax, indexing, and partitioning.

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NoSQL (Document) API

A schema-agnostic, document-oriented API. Ideal for applications that manage JSON documents, with flexible data models.

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Apache Gremlin API

A graph database API. Perfect for modeling and querying complex relationships and connections between data.

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Specialized APIs

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Azure Table Storage API

A key-value store API. Optimized for high-throughput, scalable access to structured data, often for legacy applications.

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Time Series API

Built for IoT and operational telemetry. Optimizes storage and querying of time-stamped data with high ingestion rates.

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