BRIEF OVERVIEW: Azure Databricks Delta

Azure Databricks Delta is a unified analytics platform provided by Microsoft Azure that combines the power of Apache Spark with a reliable data lake. It provides advanced features for building scalable and high-performance data pipelines, enabling real-time streaming, batch processing, and interactive queries on large datasets.

Delta Lake is an open-source storage layer that sits on top of existing data lakes such as Azure Data Lake Storage. It brings ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) transactional capabilities to big data workloads while offering schema enforcement and metadata management functionalities.

FAQs about Azure Databricks Delta:

• Q: What are the key features of Azure Databricks Delta?
  A: Some key features include:
  • – ACID transactions for reliability and consistency in big data workloads.
  • – Schema enforcement to ensure consistent structure across different batches or streams of data.
  • – Optimized file formats like Parquet for faster query performance.