Delta Lake resources

Blog posts and talks

Databricks blog posts and talks

VLDB 2020 paper

Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores

Examples

The Delta Lake GitHub repository has Scala and Python examples.

Delta Lake transaction log specification

The Delta Lake transaction log has a well-defined open protocol that can be used by any system to read the log. See Delta Transaction Log Protocol.

For more information about the Delta Lake transaction log, watch this YouTube video (53 minutes).

Data types

Delta Lake supports all of the data types listed in Data types except for Interval data types.