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by rawgabbit 1675 days ago
Thank you for the detailed write up. I did a cursory investigation of CosmosDB but didn’t know it was this bad.
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It is much worse than this this was just the start of a very long list of awful problems (my team tried to live with Cosmos for a couple of years too,luckily got approved a port to another DB and now we are not looking back).

The worst thing is Microsoft reps would always recommend the database, Microsoft support (who came onsite to us to talk with us about Cosmos) had a hard time acknowledging what should be obvious problems and so on... so it took a while for us to catch on that it actually is as beyond awful as it is.

Glad to hear we're not the only ones.

There were times when I felt like I was part of some elaborate prank or social psychology experiment to see how developers would react to an obviously broken product. Trivial use cases were, and probably still are utterly broken. As if no one before us ever tried to use them.

Still, I'd love to hear about your experience with cosmos and the issues you guys discovered.