Microsoft is making available in preview form on August 21 two new Azure cloud services: A NoSQL database service and a full-text search service.
The Azure DocumentDB NoSQL service was built by Microsoft in response to user requests for a fully mananged database that provided query and transactional capabilities at scale, Microsoft officials said. Microsoft is not open-sourcing Azure DocumentDB, but the company will submit the client-library software development kits for it to the open source community, officials said.