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DP-900 · Question #216

You plan to deploy an app. The app requires a nonrelational data service that will provide latency guarantees of less than 10-ms for reads and writes. What should you include in the solution?

The correct answer is A. Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed NoSQL (nonrelational) database service that guarantees single-digit millisecond latency for reads and writes at any scale.

Submitted by fatima_kr· Mar 30, 2026Describe considerations for non-relational data on Azure

Question

You plan to deploy an app. The app requires a nonrelational data service that will provide latency guarantees of less than 10-ms for reads and writes. What should you include in the solution?

Options

  • AAzure Cosmos DB
  • BAzure Table storage
  • CAzure Files
  • DAzure Blob storage

How the community answered

(53 responses)
  • A
    94% (50)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
    2% (1)

Why each option

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed NoSQL (nonrelational) database service that guarantees single-digit millisecond latency for reads and writes at any scale.

AAzure Cosmos DBCorrect

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's fully managed NoSQL database designed specifically to provide latency guarantees of less than 10 milliseconds for both reads and writes. It supports multiple data models (document, key-value, graph, column-family) and uses multi-region replication with automatic indexing to achieve these SLA-backed performance commitments.

BAzure Table storage

Azure Table storage is a basic key-value NoSQL store but does not provide latency guarantees; it is a lower-cost, simpler service without the SLA-backed single-digit millisecond performance of Cosmos DB.

CAzure Files

Azure Files is a managed file share service (SMB/NFS protocol) used for lift-and-shift file sharing scenarios, not a nonrelational data store with latency guarantees.

DAzure Blob storage

Azure Blob storage is an object store for unstructured data such as images and documents; it is not a nonrelational database and does not offer latency guarantees for transactional reads and writes.

Concept tested: Azure Cosmos DB latency SLA for nonrelational workloads

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introduction

Topics

#Azure Cosmos DB#latency guarantees#non-relational#NoSQL service selection

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