Best Streaming Analytics Platforms for Microsoft Azure

StarTree Cloud is a fully-managed real-time analytics platform designed for OLAP at massive speed and scale for user-facing applications. Powered by Apache Pinot, StarTree Cloud provides enterprise-grade reliability and advanced capabilities such as tiered storage, scalable upserts, plus additional indexes and connectors. It integrates seamlessly with transactional databases and event streaming platforms, ingesting data at millions of events per second and indexing it for lightning-fast query responses. StarTree Cloud is available on your favorite public cloud or for private SaaS deployment. StarTree Cloud includes StarTree Data Manager, which allows you to ingest data from both real-time sources such as Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, or Redpanda, as well as batch data sources such as data warehouses like Snowflake, Delta Lake or Google BigQuery, or object stores like Amazon S3, Apache Flink, Apache Hadoop, or Apache Spark. StarTree ThirdEye is an add-on anomaly detection system running on top of StarTree Cloud that observes your business-critical metrics, alerting you and allowing you to perform root-cause analysis — all in real-time.

Smart DIH is a data management platform that quickly serves applications with accurate, fresh and complete data, delivering high performance, ultra-low latency, and an always-on digital experience. Smart DIH decouples APIs from SoRs, replicating critical data, and making it available using event-driven architecture. Smart DIH enables drastically shorter development cycles of new digital services, and rapidly scales to serve millions of concurrent users – no matter which IT infrastructure or cloud topologies it relies on. XAP Skyline is a distributed in-memory development platform that delivers transactional consistency, combined with extreme event-based processing and microsecond latency. The platform fuels core business solutions that rely on instantaneous data, including online trading, real-time risk management and data processing for AI and large language models.

Azure Data Explorer provides fast, fully managed data analytics services for real-time analysis of large amounts of data streaming from websites, applications, IoT devices, etc. Ask questions and iteratively analyze data on the fly to improve products and customer experiences, monitor devices, boost operations, and increase profits. Identify patterns, anomalies, or trends quickly in your data. Find answers to your questions quickly and easily by exploring new topics. The optimized cost structure allows you to run as many queries as needed. You can explore new possibilities with your data efficiently. With the fully managed, easy-to-use data analytics service, you can focus on insights and not infrastructure. Rapidly respond to rapidly changing and fast-flowing data. Azure Data Explorer simplifies analytics for all types of streaming data.

WarpStream, an Apache Kafka compatible data streaming platform, is built directly on object storage. It has no inter-AZ network costs, no disks that need to be managed, and it's infinitely scalable within your VPC. WarpStream is deployed in your VPC as a stateless, auto-scaling binary agent. No local disks are required to be managed. Agents stream data directly into and out of object storage without buffering on local drives and no data tiering. Instantly create new "virtual" clusters in our control plan. Support multiple environments, teams or projects without having to manage any dedicated infrastructure. WarpStream is Apache Kafka protocol compatible, so you can continue to use your favorite tools and applications. No need to rewrite or use a proprietary SDK. Simply change the URL of your favorite Kafka library in order to start streaming. Never again will you have to choose between budget and reliability.

Data integration for hybrid clouds Modern, reliable data integration across both your private cloud and public cloud. All this in real-time, with change data capture and streams. Striim was developed by the executive and technical team at GoldenGate Software. They have decades of experience in mission critical enterprise workloads. Striim can be deployed in your environment as a distributed platform or in the cloud. Your team can easily adjust the scaleability of Striim. Striim is fully secured with HIPAA compliance and GDPR compliance. Built from the ground up to support modern enterprise workloads, whether they are hosted in the cloud or on-premise. Drag and drop to create data flows among your sources and targets. Real-time SQL queries allow you to process, enrich, and analyze streaming data.

Apache Kafka®, with Confluent, has an infinite retention. Be infrastructure-enabled, not infrastructure-restricted Legacy technologies require you to choose between being real-time or highly-scalable. Event streaming allows you to innovate and win by being both highly-scalable and real-time. Ever wonder how your rideshare app analyses massive amounts of data from multiple sources in order to calculate real-time ETA. Wondering how your credit card company analyzes credit card transactions from all over the world and sends fraud notifications in real time? Event streaming is the answer. Microservices are the future. A persistent bridge to the cloud can enable your hybrid strategy. Break down silos to demonstrate compliance. Gain real-time, persistent event transport. There are many other options.

ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service™ Easily create and deploy real-time twins for streaming analytics Connect with many data sources with Azure & AWS IoT Hubs, Kafka, etc. Maximize situational awareness through live, aggregate analytics. A breakthrough cloud service that simultaneously tracks telemetry across millions of data sources, with "real-time digital twins" -- enabling deep, immediate introspection and state-tracking for thousands of devices. The powerful UI makes deployment easy and displays aggregate analytics in real-time to maximize situational awareness. Ideal for a wide variety of applications, including the Internet of Things, real-time intelligent monitoring and logistics, financial services, and financial services. Simple pricing makes it easy to get started. The ScaleOut Digital Twin Builder software and ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service enable the next generation of stream processing.