Azure Stream Analytics aims to extract knowledge structures from continuous ordered streams of data by real-time analysis.These streams might include computer network traffic, social network data, phone conversations, sensor readings, ATM transactions or web searches. Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, cost effective real-time event processing engine that helps to unlock deep insights from data.

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  • Intake millions of events per second (up to 1 GB/s) at variable loads
  • Scale that accommodates variable loads
  • Low processing latency, auto adaptive (sub-second to seconds)
  • Transform, augment, correlate, temporal operations
  • Correlate between different streams, or with reference data
  • Find patterns or lack of patterns in data in real-time
  • Elasticity of the cloud for scale out
  • No hardware (PaaS offering)
  • Rapid development