Azure Cosmos DB: Expire data automatically with "time-to-live" setting

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Published

May 10, 2016

Timeline

  • May 2016
    General Availability

Product

Azure Cosmos DB

Tag

Features
Services

Category

Databases
Internet of Things

Description

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB now provides the ability to set the length of time in which a document lives in the database before being automatically purged. This length of time is referred to as the document's "time-to-live" (TTL) and is measured in seconds since the document was last modified. You can set this value at the collection level and override it on a per-document basis. If a time-to-live value is set, Azure Cosmos DB automatically removes documents that exist after that period of time.

For more information about time-to-live, see the Expire data in Azure Cosmos DB collections automatically with time to live​ article or the Azure Cosmos DB now supports time to live blog post.