StreamInsight Server Architecture

The run-time component of Microsoft StreamInsight is the StreamInsight server. It consists of the core engine and the adapter framework. The adapter framework allows developers to create interfaces to event stores such as Web servers, devices or sensors, and stock tickers or news feeds; and to event sinks such as pagers, monitoring devices, KPI dashboards, trading stations, or databases. Incoming events are continuously streamed into standing queries in the StreamInsight server, which process and transform the data according to the logic defined in each query. The query result at the output can then be used to trigger specific actions.

The following illustration presents a high-level overview of the StreamInsight architecture.