We are happy to announce that the Apache Spark to Azure Cosmos DB Connector is now generally available. It enables real-time data analytics and data science, machine learning, and exploration over globally distributed data in Azure Cosmos DB. Connecting Apache Spark to Azure Cosmos DB accelerates our customer’s ability to solve fast-moving data science problems, where data can be quickly persisted and queried using Azure Cosmos DB. The Apache Spark to Azure Cosmos DB connector efficiently exploits the native Azure Cosmos DB managed indexes that enable updateable columns when performing analytics and push-down predicate filtering against fast-changing globally-distributed data, ranging from IoT, data science, and analytics scenarios. The Apache Spark to Azure Cosmos DB connector uses the Java Reactive Extension (Rx) for Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB SDK.
Read about it in the Azure blog.