Azure Stream Analytics

Microsoft's Azure Stream Analytics – part of the company's Azure IoT Suite – is a fully managed service that enables customers to do real-time stream processing of data in-motion in “SQL-like language.”

A few months back, Microsoft also said it has integrated Azure Stream Analytics with Power BI, enabling customers to output data directly from their streaming jobs to real-time dashboards with built-in Power BI so there is a visual element to how they monitor data.

What's Cool About It: Stream Analytics provides a number of input connectors, such as Azure Event Hubs and Azure IoT Hubs, which allow users to easily ingest data at scale,so they can aggregate, filter and group the streaming data on temporal windows.