Comments on: Azure Cosmos DB Pricing Compared to DynamoDB and NeptuneDB https://thomaslarock.com/2018/05/azure-cosmos-db-pricing-compared-to-dynamodb-and-neptunedb/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Sun, 12 Aug 2018 19:58:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Thomas LaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2018/05/azure-cosmos-db-pricing-compared-to-dynamodb-and-neptunedb/#comment-37139 Sun, 12 Aug 2018 19:58:04 +0000 https://thomaslarock.com/?p=19083#comment-37139 In reply to Dale Michalk.

Thanks for the comment! In my experience, the pricing for services in Azure get adjusted downward over time. I would expect that same to happen for CosmosDB, too.

]]> By: Dale Michalk https://thomaslarock.com/2018/05/azure-cosmos-db-pricing-compared-to-dynamodb-and-neptunedb/#comment-36616 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 00:26:17 +0000 https://thomaslarock.com/?p=19083#comment-36616 The part of your post on “this isn’t the right solution for you” is correct. CosmosDB isn’t the platform for anyone moving a MongoDB application to this platform unless you are building a massive size solution or have a big budget and dont care what the data storage layer costs for you.

What costs you $200 in MongoDB atlas costs you about $1K a month in CosmosDB. The 50K RU spread model did nothing to address any of the cost concerns for people running MongoDB apps that by pattern use multiple collections to structure their app and don’t necessarily need high scale.

If they just let you adjust this to your needs…all would be well…but alas its not meant to be. Great service for service for sure….but expensive…you bet. What would your Azure SQL Database pricing be if that product charged and scaled by table? Why is SQL pricing so much more affordable?

I just wish Microsoft would have done a low cost PaaS hosted MongoDB like they do for MySQL instead of the expensive fancy low latency one that they built out.

So unless you are in an enterprise shop or have a big budget…go with MongoDB atlas and have its VMs run on Azure until you can afford or need CosmosDB.

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]]> By: John Langston https://thomaslarock.com/2018/05/azure-cosmos-db-pricing-compared-to-dynamodb-and-neptunedb/#comment-21617 Fri, 11 May 2018 20:10:55 +0000 https://thomaslarock.com/?p=19083#comment-21617 Thank for a great article and the good point about the “right solution”. If one needs a place to park some data that needs to be accessed really, really fast then, depending upon the application involved it might indeed be the right solution.

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