Databricks

eBook

Delta Lake: The Definitive Guide by O’Reilly

First look: Practical guidance on using and optimizing Delta tables and working with streaming data
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This preview of the eBook "Delta Lake: The Definitive Guide" includes two chapters that will help you use and optimize Delta Lake, the open source storage format that enables you to create modern data lakehouse architectures. The first chapter describes Delta Lake maintenance fundamentals and explains best practices for optimizing and tuning Delta tables. The second chapter explores how to use Delta Lake for data streaming scenarios including change data capture.

Download the preview to get practical guidance on creating and working with Delta tables.

You'll read chapters that cover:

  1. Maintaining your Delta Lake
  2. Streaming data into and out of Delta Lake, Auto Loader and Delta Live Tables
  3. How to use change data feed in a streaming Delta Lake pipeline