Microsoft framework for geospatial stream processing

Abstract

Microsoft StreamInsight is a platform for developing and deploying streaming applications. StreamInsight embraces a temporal stream model to unify and further enrich query language features, handle imperfections in event delivery and define consistency guarantees on the output. With its extensibility framework, StreamInsight enables developers to integrate their domain expertise within the query pipeline as user defined functions, operators and aggregates. The addition of the Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Library enables StreamInsight to deliver Geostreaming support. With StreamInsight analyzing and summarizing input data, SQL Server and SQL Azure has the ability to persist these summaries in the data center or the cloud. These summaries can be used as feedback to StreamInsight for future query processing or used as the basis for historical data analysis and reporting. This framework enables organizations to seamlessly consume, use, and extend all form of stream data including geographic data.