Azure SQL Data Warehouse Share Copy Ignite Microsoft has pushed out Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB to general availability in an effort to bring its transactional NoSQL database closer to the analytics workhorse data warehouse. Teased in May last year, Microsoft said the link would comprise of two main components. Firstly, a Cosmos DB would house a column-oriented analytical store within containers in addition to the existing row-oriented transactional store. "The analytical store is fully isolated from the transactional store such that queries over the analytical store have no impact on your transactional workloads," developers Ramnandan Krishnamurthy and Sri Chintala said in a blog post last year.