#shorts what is HorizonDB and what updates about it at Microsoft Build 2026

Traditional PostgreSQL hits a wall at enterprise scale. You start sharding. Complexity explodes. Latency creeps up. Your team spends more time managing the database than building on top of it. At Microsoft Build, I spoke with Shireesh Thota, CVP of Azure Databases & App Development, about how Azure HorizonDB is built to eliminate that wall entirely. Auto-scaling storage and scale-out compute adapt to changing workloads automatically — decoupling compute and storage with a zone-resilient architecture. (Microsoft Community Hub) The ceiling: 3,072 vCores across primary and replica nodes, 128TB auto-scaling storage, and sub-millisecond multi-zone commit latency — delivering up to 3x more throughput than open-source PostgreSQL for transactional workloads. (Microsoft Azure) And it mirrors directly to Microsoft Fabric OneLake — zero ETL. That last point matters most for your data estate. Your operational data and your analytical data finally live in the same governed platform. #MicrosoftBuild #MSBuild #MicrosoftBuild2026 #HorizonDB #AzureHorizonDB #PostgreSQL #MicrosoftFabric #OneLake #DataScalability #CloudDatabase #AgenticAI #DataPlatform #PowerBI #RADACAD #DataEngineering