Streaming data sources and sinks
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Structured Streaming has built-in support for a number of streaming data sources and sinks (for example, files and Kafka) and programmatic interfaces that allow you to specify arbitrary data writers. These are explored in the following articles.
- Apache Kafka
- Load files from Azure Blob storage, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 (limited), or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 using Auto Loader
- Azure Event Hubs
- Delta Lake tables
- Read and write streaming Avro data
- Write to arbitrary data sinks
- Optimized Azure Blob storage file source with Azure Queue Storage