horizondb
by Microsoft · pay-as-you-go, with compute billed per vCore and based on the compute you provision for both the primary instance and high availability replicas. Storage allocated to data and logs is billed in GiB/month. There is no charge for backup storage for up to 100% of the total initial size of your cluster. Additional backup storage consumption will be charged in GiB/month.
Specifications
- Storage t b
- 128
- V cores max
- 3072
- Performance multiplier
- 3
Overview
Azure HorizonDB is Microsoft's next-generation cloud-native, high-performance PostgreSQL-compatible database service for mission-critical workloads. It decouples compute and storage with auto-scaling zone resilient storage, horizontal read scale-out, low latency, and enterprise-grade security. Built for developers, it offers advanced AI capabilities like DiskANN with advanced filtering, one-click integration with Microsoft Foundry, and zero-ETL mirroring to Microsoft Fabric Onelake.
Key features
- ▸Up to 3x faster performance than self-managed Postgres
- ▸Scales to 3,072 vCores and 128 TB
- ▸Auto-scaling storage and scale-out compute
- ▸Built-in identity, secure connectivity, encryption, and default multi-zone replication
- ▸AI-native capabilities including DiskANN vector search with advanced filtering
- ▸In-database curated set of pre-provisioned AI models
- ▸AI functions invoked directly from Postgres queries
- ▸Fault-tolerant AI pipelines for chunking, embedding, and retrieval
- ▸VS Code integration via PostgreSQL extension
- ▸GitHub Copilot context-aware code suggestions