Understanding parts of a Stream Analytics job definition (input, output, reference data, and job)

Stream Analytics job definition includes inputs, a query, and output. We will start the topic with a brief introduction to input, output and query. We will look into each of the components in detail as follows:

  • Input: Data connections to Stream Analytics from a given event source is called an input. For instance, Stream Analytics can connect directly to Azure Event Hubs, IoT Hub, and Blob storage to receive events. Do note that the Azure resource mentioned can be from the same or different subscriptions. Stream Analytics can handle high event throughput of up to 1 GB per second.
  • Reference data: In addition to input, stream sets also support ...

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