Azure DocumentDB offers the following key capabilities and BENEFITS:

Elastically scalable throughput and storage: Easily scale up or scale down your DocumentDB JSONdatabase to meet your application needs. Your data is stored on solid state DISKS (SSD) for owredictablelatencies. DocumentDB supports containers for storing JSON data CALLED collections that can scale to virtuallyunlimited storage sizes and provisioned throughput.

Multi-region replication: MDocumentDB TRANSPARENTLY replicates your data to all regions you've associated with your DocumentDB account, enabling you to develop applications that require global access to data whileproviding tradeoffs between consistency, availability and performance, all with corresponding guarantees.DocumentDB provides transparent REGIONAL failover with multi-homing APIs, and the ability to elastically scalethroughput and storage across the globe.

Azure DocumentDB offers the following key capabilities and benefits:

Elastically scalable throughput and storage: Easily scale up or scale down your DocumentDB JSONdatabase to meet your application needs. Your data is stored on solid state disks (SSD) for owredictablelatencies. DocumentDB supports containers for storing JSON data called collections that can scale to virtuallyunlimited storage sizes and provisioned throughput.

Multi-region replication: MDocumentDB transparently replicates your data to all regions you've associated with your DocumentDB account, enabling you to develop applications that require global access to data whileproviding tradeoffs between consistency, availability and performance, all with corresponding guarantees.DocumentDB provides transparent regional failover with multi-homing APIs, and the ability to elastically scalethroughput and storage across the globe.