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Azure Cosmos DB API Modes Explained: NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Gremlin, and Table

TLDR: Cosmos DB's six API modes are wire-protocol compatibility layers over one shared ARS storage engine — except PostgreSQL (Citus), which is genuinely different. Every API emulates its native database incompletely, and those gaps are structural, n...

Apr 5, 2026•25 min read

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The Dual Write Problem in NoSQL: MongoDB, DynamoDB, and Cassandra

TLDR: NoSQL databases trade cross-entity atomicity for scale — and every database draws that atomicity boundary in a different place. MongoDB's boundary is the document (pre-4.0) or the replica set (4.0+ multi-doc transactions). DynamoDB's boundary i...

Apr 5, 2026•37 min read