Supported APIs and programming models

• SQL
• NoSQL
  • DocumentDB
  • key-value store
  • wide-column store
• Graph

SQL API

• Core API with many unique features
• Supports JavaScript logic and SQL queries

MongoDB API

• Compatible with MongoDB v3.2 protocol
• Supports aggregation pipeline

Gremlin API

• Compatible with the Apache TinkerPop graph traversal language (Gremlin)
• Returns results in GraphSON (extended JSON) format

Table API

• Direct replacement for Azure table storage
• Service-level compatibility with Azure Storage Tables
• Migrate applications with no code changes

Cassandra API

• Supports Cassandra Query Language (COL) v4 protocol
• Works out of the box with CQL shell

etcd API

• Implements etcd wire protocol
• Can be used as a backing store for Azure Kubernetes Service