insight Part 2! In a previous post, I discussed the options for running Java workloads on Azure. Now it is time to discover some of the choices Azure offers to our software engineers!
MongoDB
Our favourite document based database is also available on Azure. You can of course run your own VM or docker image, but Azure also offers a MongoDB as a Service. This service is called Azure Cosmos DB and is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service. Azure Cosmos DB provides global distribution, elastic scaling and very low latencies with very high availability. And it comes with 5 different APIs including a MongoDB API.
MySQL
The popular relational database. Again, we can run this with our own VM or docker image, but it is also available as a managed service.
But wait, there’s still more!
Microsoft has a lot of options for running and developing Java based workloads on Azure, but this is still not not the entire story ;). There are many, many more services that support Java in one way or another, but we will leave them for another time. In one more follow up post I will be reviewing options for operating your custom Java solutions on Azure.