Imagine if you could have in your box all the cars in the picture and pay every day only for the one you effectively want to use. Going to the city? Take the micro. Out for a date? Why not the supercar.

This is the long term agility that cloud providers like Azure and this architecture can provide us with. Need a NoSQL database, why not Azure Cosmos DB. Graph API? Why not Gremlin.

Conclusion

Sharing a database between different microservice couples them together and most of the times might not be the best solution when using a microservice architecture..