October 2024
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
10h 39m
English
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Preface
Welcome to Delta Lake: The Definitive Guide! Since it became an open source project in 2019, Delta Lake has revolutionized how organizations manage and process their data. Designed to bring reliability, performance, and scalability to data lakes, Delta Lake addresses many of the inherent challenges traditional data lake architectures face.
Over the past five years, Delta Lake has undergone significant transformation. Originally focused on enhancing Apache Spark, Delta Lake now boasts a rich ecosystem with integrations across various platforms, including Apache Flink, Trino, and many more. This evolution has enabled Delta Lake to become a versatile and integral component of modern data engineering and data science workflows.
Who This Book Is For
As a team of production users and maintainers of the Delta Lake project, we’re thrilled to share our collective knowledge and experience with you. Our journey with Delta Lake spans from small-scale implementations to internet-scale production lakehouses, giving us a unique perspective on its capabilities and how to work around any complexities.
The primary goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive resource for both newcomers and experts in data lakehouse architectures. For those just starting with Delta Lake, we aim to elucidate its core principles and help you avoid the common mistakes we encountered in our early days. If you’re already well versed in Delta Lake, you’ll find valuable insights into the underlying codebase, ...
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