azure horizondb

Microsoft’s preview of Azure HorizonDB signals a deliberate push to make PostgreSQL the anchor of large, cloud‑native and AI‑driven workloads on Azure, blending a scale‑out, disaggregated storage model with native vector search and an engine partly written in Rust. Background Azure has offered...

Microsoft's Azure HorizonDB launches as a full‑scale, cloud‑native distributed PostgreSQL service that aims to reframe how enterprises run transactional and AI‑augmented workloads in Azure, promising major gains in read scale, vector search, and integration with Microsoft's AI and Fabric...

Microsoft has quietly moved to make PostgreSQL the center of its next-generation data strategy with the launch of Azure HorizonDB — a managed, PostgreSQL-compatible, scale-out database engineered for cloud-native, AI-driven workloads and enterprise modernization. Background PostgreSQL's...

Microsoft’s preview of Azure HorizonDB marks a deliberate push to position a PostgreSQL-compatible, AI‑native managed database at the center of application modernization and next‑generation AI workloads — promising scale, built‑in vector search, and close integration with Microsoft’s AI and...