Real-Time Message Ingestion for Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure

Suitable Option for Real-Time Message Ingestion

Question

You are designing a solution to ingest data streams that will be captured in real-time and processed with the least latency.

You should be able to communicate in two ways.

Which of the options is suitable for real-time message ingestion in this case?

Answers

Explanations

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A. B. C. D.

Correct Answer: B.

When you want to establish a two-way communication connection, Kafka HDInsight and Azure Event Hub will not be the right choice as they don't have this capability.

Options A and C are incorrect: Because two-way communication or cloud-to-device communication capability is not available for Azure Event hub or Kafka HDInsight.

Option B is correct: Azure IOT hub supports not only the two communication, but also the capability it manages/revokes the access of individual devices.

For ingesting data streams in real-time and processing them with the least latency, the most suitable option among the given choices is A. Azure Event Hub.

Azure Event Hub is a highly scalable data streaming platform that can ingest and process millions of events per second in real-time. It allows capturing and analyzing large amounts of event data from different sources such as websites, applications, devices, and sensors, and storing them for further processing or analysis.

Azure IOT Hub is designed specifically for the Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios and provides secure communication between IoT devices and Azure services. It can handle high volumes of device-to-cloud telemetry data in real-time and store them for further analysis. However, since it is designed for IoT scenarios, it may not be the most suitable option for non-IoT data streams.

Kafka on HDInsight is a managed service that provides Apache Kafka clusters on Azure HDInsight. It allows streaming large amounts of data in real-time and enables data processing with Apache Storm or Spark. However, since it is a managed service, it may not offer the flexibility and scalability required for real-time message ingestion and processing.

Therefore, the most suitable option for real-time message ingestion among the given choices is A. Azure Event Hub, as it offers high scalability, low latency, and efficient event processing capabilities.