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Real-time mode in Spark Structured Streaming

GA
Last seen at this status: 2026-03-19·Mar 2026

A Structured Streaming trigger that processes each event as it arrives instead of in micro-batches, giving end-to-end latency in milliseconds for workloads such as fraud detection and personalization. It runs on classic compute with dedicated or standard access, while real-time mode inside Lakeflow pipelines is a separate Public Preview.

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