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We performed a comparison between Amazon Timestream and Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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  • "Cosmos should be cheaper. We actually intend to stop using it in the near future because the price is too high."
  • "There is a licensing fee."
  • "For the cloud, we don't pay for the license, but for the on-prem versions, we do pay."
  • "Cosmos DB is a PaaS, so there are no upfront costs for infrastructure. There are only subscriptions you pay for Azure and things like that. But it's a PaaS, so it's a subscription service. The license isn't perpetual, and the cost might seem expensive on its face, but you have to look at the upkeep for infrastructure and what you're saving."
  • "The price of Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB could be a bit lower."
  • "The cost is the biggest limitation of this solution."
  • "Azure is a pay as you go subscription."
  • "The RU's use case determines our license fees."
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    Top Answer:The initial setup is simple and straightforward. You can set up a Cosmos DB in a day, even configuring things like availability zones around the world.
    Top Answer:With heavy use, like a large-scale IoT implementation, you could easily hit a quarter of a million dollars a month in Azure charges if Cosmos DB is a big part of it.
    Top Answer:The downside is that Cosmos is new and fairly complex. There's a limited pool of talent who are really good at working with it. Because of that, I've been approached by recruiters quite a bit; they… more »
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft Azure DocumentDB, MS Azure Cosmos DB
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    Overview

    Amazon Timestream is a purpose-built time series database service for collecting, storing, and processing time-series data such as server and network logs, sensor data, and industrial telemetry data for IoT and operational applications. Amazon Timestream processes trillions of events per day at one-tenth the cost of relational databases, with up to one thousand times faster query performance than a general-purpose database.

    Amazon Timestream efficiently stores and processes time-series data — data that measures how things change over time — by time intervals. As your data grows over time, Timestream’s adaptive query processing engine understands its location and format, making your data simpler and faster to analyze. Timestream also automates rollups, retention, tiering, and compression of data, so you can manage your data at the lowest possible cost. Timestream is serverless, so there are no servers to manage. It manages time-consuming tasks, such as server provisioning, software patching, setup, configuration, and data retention and tiering, freeing you to focus on building your applications.

    DocumentDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service built for fast and predictable performance, high availability, elastic scaling, global distribution, and ease of development. As a schema-free NoSQL database, DocumentDB provides rich and familiar SQL query capabilities with consistent low latencies on JSON data - ensuring that 99% of your reads are served under 10 milliseconds and 99% of your writes are served under 15 milliseconds. These unique benefits make DocumentDB a great fit for web, mobile, gaming, and IoT, and many other applications that need seamless scale and global replication.

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    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
    American Cancer Society, Exxon Mobil, Symantec
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    Manufacturing Company15%
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    Financial Services Firm12%
    Retailer8%
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    Large Enterprise64%
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    Amazon Timestream is ranked 6th in Managed NoSQL Databases while Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is ranked 1st in Managed NoSQL Databases with 38 reviews. Amazon Timestream is rated 0.0, while Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB writes "Removes bottlenecks related to databases in our application and works quickly because of reference keys". Amazon Timestream is most compared with Amazon Neptune, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon DocumentDB, Google Cloud Bigtable and Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud, whereas Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is most compared with Amazon Neptune, Amazon DynamoDB, Google Cloud Bigtable, Neo4j AuraDB and Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud.

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