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Building Production-Grade Delta Lake Pipelines With Apache Spark on Databricks

Apache Parquet on cloud storage was a great first step for data lakes — but it left engineers dealing with a painful set of problems in production: On Databricks, Delta is the default table format, deeply integrated with Apache Spark, Auto Optimize, and the Photon execution engine.

Building Production-Grade Delta Lake Pipelines With Apache Spark on Databricks

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Apache Parquet on cloud storage was a great first step for data lakes — but it left engineers dealing with a painful set of problems in production:

On Databricks, Delta is the default table format, deeply integrated with Apache Spark, Auto Optimize, and the Photon execution engine.

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Apache Parquet on cloud storage was a great first step for data lakes — but it left engineers dealing with a painful set of problems in production: On Databricks, Delta is the default table format, deeply integrated with Apache Spark, Auto Optimize, and the Photon execution engine.

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