Mirroring operational data for the AI era with Striim and Microsoft Fabric
This blog is co-authored by Alok Pareek, Executive Vice President of Products at Striim and Shireesh Thota, Corporate Vice President of Azure Data.
Businesses face the challenge of deploying next-generation applications across hybrid data estates with an ever-growing volume of data spread across diverse environments including from on-premises operational systems, software as a service (SaaS) applications running in multiple public clouds, events from edge devices, objects in file storage, messaging queues, and beyond. As companies increasingly rely on AI and real-time analytics to drive innovation, the ability to seamlessly integrate, process, and analyze this data with low latency has become more critical than ever. The need for a modernized data infrastructure that can support massive data volumes and deliver intelligent, actionable insights at the speed of business is essential.
Striim and Microsoft—Partnering for success with Open Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric
To meet the growing demands of modern data infrastructure, Striim has deepened its longstanding collaboration with Microsoft to offer a new mirroring solution based on Open Mirroring that avoids complex Extraction Transformation Loading (ETL) to transform how businesses manage, integrate, and analyze their data. At the heart of this collaboration is Microsoft Fabric, which is a comprehensive, unified data platform supporting an open format data that combines everything from data integration, analytics, real-time intelligence, business intelligence, and now operational databases. All of these services are supported by Microsoft OneLake, a unified intelligent storage layer that addresses the challenges of decentralized data teams working in silos.
With its fully managed service built on Microsoft Azure, Striim enables businesses to continuously deliver fresh, real-time transactional data into Fabric for seamless, low-latency analytics and AI. As a key data integration partner for Microsoft Fabric, Striim plays a critical role in bridging the gap between siloed data environments, ensuring businesses can harness the full potential of their data with speed and precision.
Mirroring operational SQL data with SQL2Fabric-Mirroring
SQL2Fabric-Mirroring is a new managed mirroring service now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, developed in collaboration with Microsoft Fabric product teams. This streamlined, automated solution offers a cost-effective, low-latency approach to unifying data from diverse systems into a single analytics platform. Powered by Striim’s real-time data streaming capabilities, SQL2Fabric enables on-premises SQL databases to continuously replicate transactional data directly into Fabric OneLake, ensuring that data is fresh, consistent, and ready for analytics, AI, and decision-making.
Mirroring delivers the operational data into an open, analytics-ready Delta Lake table format. SQL2Fabric Mirroring provides flexibility and scalability, enabling businesses to replicate data seamlessly from multiple sources, without being locked into proprietary formats.
SQL2Fabric Mirroring solution highlights
- On-premises support: Easily replicate on-premises SQL Server transactional data (versions 2012 and up) into Microsoft Fabric.
- Low-latency analytics and AI: Striim’s platform is simple and user-friendly, designed for real-time analytics and AI workloads with minimal delays.
- Automated data and metadata synchronization: Streamline initial snapshot load, ongoing synchronization, and automated schema creation and evolution.
- High log throughput: Efficiently handle large datasets with high-speed log reading interfaces and fast snapshot loads.
- Data transformation and intelligence: Perform inline data enrichment, transformations, vector embedding detection, and protect sensitive data using language models like OpenAI (available in Striim Cloud Enterprise).
- Azure Marketplace availability: Enjoy a free 30-day trial and access the monthly managed service with built-in security, compliance, and data protection for mirroring data from on-premises SQL Server to a mirrored database in Fabric OneLake.
In addition to the SQL2Fabric-Mirroring solution, Striim Cloud Enterprise Solution also extends the mirroring capability to other sources such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and additional databases, NoSQL, and messaging and storage systems.
Unlock real-time data and AI with Striim and Microsoft Fabric
Striim and Microsoft Fabric provide a powerful solution for real-time data integration, enabling organizations to continuously capture and consolidate data across systems with sub-second latency. Striim’s scalable streaming service transfers data into Microsoft Fabric, where it is centralized in OneLake, a unified multicloud data lake. Striim’s distributed architecture supports vertical and horizontal scaling, leveraging multithreading and parallel pipelines to process large-scale data efficiently. This ensures the solution can adapt to increasing workloads while maintaining low latency. Organizations gain immediate access to up-to-date data for analytics and AI applications, streamlining migration and improving decision-making with real-time insights.
Striim enhances Microsoft Fabric by supporting Change Data Capture (CDC) from popular sources like SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, and Stripe, ensuring continuous data availability. This integration provides a seamless flow of data into Fabric, where its Real-Time Intelligence and Real-Time Hub tools facilitate rapid data ingestion, transformation, and analysis, empowering businesses to leverage real-time AI insights for smarter decisions.
By centralizing data in OneLake, organizations gain a unified platform for AI-powered strategies, boosting operational efficiency and accelerating time-to-market. With tools like Microsoft Copilot and the Workload Development Kit, users can quickly build machine learning models, generate code, and gain actionable insights, helping businesses stay competitive in a fast-evolving, data-driven world.
Modernize your data strategy today
Ready to unlock the full potential of your data and modernize your operations? Discover how Striim and Microsoft Fabric can streamline your data processes, accelerate AI adoption, and enhance decision-making. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help your organization transform its data strategy with real-time analytics and AI.
To get started today, visit the SQL2Fabric-Mirroring page on the Azure Marketplace.
