Reference: Creating Delta Lake Tables in Azure Databricks
Delta lake is an open-source data format that provides ACID transactions, data reliability, query performance, data caching and indexing, and many other benefits. Delta lake can be thought of as an extension of existing data lakes and can be configured per the data requirements. Azure Databricks has a delta engine as one of the core components that facilitates delta lake format for data engineering and performance. Delta lake format is used to create modern data lake or lakehouse architectures. It is also used to build a combined streaming and batch architecture popularly known as lambda architecture.
Delta lake overview from aliyun: Delta Lake概述 - 开源大数据平台E-MapReduce - 阿里云
Streaming example cases: 【详谈 Delta Lake 】系列技术专题 之 Streaming(流式计算)-阿里云开发者社区
Formal document: Welcome to the Delta Lake documentation — Delta Lake Documentation
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