A document-style NoSQL database living inside Fabric, optimised for AI workloads and running on Azure Cosmos DB technology. Fabric copies its contents into OneLake as Delta tables without any setup, so they can be queried through a SQL analytics endpoint.
Also called Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric.
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Terms in this definition
- Non-relational database
Stores data without imposing a relational schema. Common kinds: graph, column-family, document and key-value.
- Cosmos DB
NoSQL database distributed globally, offering writes in multiple regions, automatic indexing and latency below 10 ms.
- OneLake
Built on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, it is the one logical data lake for an entire Microsoft Fabric tenant, provisioned automatically, and the place where every Fabric workload keeps its data.
- SQL analytics endpoint
Read-only SQL access in Fabric to the data in a lakehouse. Power BI using DirectQuery through it performs more slowly than Direct Lake.