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What is Delta Lake and its benefits? - Databricks Tutorial
From the course: Complete Guide to Databricks for Data Engineering
What is Delta Lake and its benefits?
- [Instructor] Delta Lake is a very important in today's world. The world is moving from data lake to the data lakehouse and there the data lakes plays a very important role. Let's understand what is the Delta Lake? Delta Lake is an open-source storage layer. The main idea behind using Delta Lake is to provide the transaction capability to the data lakes. Eventually, your data is stored under the hood in the data lake, and on top of it, we have a Delta Lake layer that's provide the ACID transaction capability and schema reinforcement and few other functionalities. It also provide a unified platform for a streaming and batch processing. In today's time, there's a lot of business requirement comes where you have to do the batch processing. And at the same time, you are getting the streaming data either using Kafka, some APIs, or through IoT, or any other streaming data source. In that case, Delta Lake can be very beneficial. If we talk about some of the important features of the Delta…
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