Azure HorizonDB (Preview) – Cluster Creation, Compute Scaling, Graph DB & AI Pipelines

This article provides a detailed tutorial on Azure HorizonDB (Preview), Microsoft's fully managed PostgreSQL-based data platform that combines relational database, vector store, graph database, and AI pipeline runtime into a single cluster. It covers cluster creation via Azure Portal, including configuration of basics (cluster name, region, PostgreSQL version), compute scaling with various vCore tiers (2 to 192 vCores), high availability options, networking, security, and tags. The article emphasizes auto-scaling shared storage and stateless compute for modern AI workloads, with notes on preview limitations and pricing.