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Microsoft has debuted Fabric Databases as a unified, SaaS- native database experience inside Microsoft Fabric that merges SQL Database and Azure Cosmos DB capabilities into a single operational data layer. Announced at Ignite 2025, Fabric Databases are designed to simplify how organizations manage transactional and operational data that feeds analytics and AI workloads. Instead of juggling separate database services and data pipelines, teams can spin up databases within Fabric that are serverless, autonomous, and tightly integrated with Fabric's OneLake data foundation.
In practice, Fabric Databases provide instant provisioning of SQL and NoSQL data stores that run under Fabric's control plane. Developers can choose between SQL-style relational schemas and Cosmos DB–style document and key–value models, but manage them as part of a single platform that handles infrastructure, scaling, and lifecycle tasks. The architecture is serverless, so capacity automatically adjusts to workload demands without manual sizing of...