Delta Lake

Spec sheet

What it does

Delta Lake is an open-source storage framework for building format-agnostic lakehouse architectures on data lakes.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Integrations

Listed integrations include Apache Spark, Flink, Hive, Trino, Athena, BigQuery, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and Snowflake (Beta).Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

ACID transactions

Delta Lake provides serializable transactions to protect data consistency.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Batch and streaming

Delta Lake supports unified batch and streaming workloads with exactly-once ingestion semantics.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Community support

The project points users to Slack, GitHub Issues, Stack Overflow, and Google Groups for community help.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Compatibility requirement

Delta Lake releases are compatible with specified Apache Spark versions; for example, the releases page lists Delta Lake 4.3.x with Spark 4.0.x and 4.1.x.Read 7 Oct 2026 · docs.delta.io

Compute engines

The site lists Spark, PrestoDB, Flink, Trino, Hive, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Athena, Redshift, Databricks, and Azure Fabric among compatible compute engines.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Data changes

SQL, Scala/Java, and Python APIs support merge, update, and delete operations on datasets.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Data operations

Delta Lake provides SQL, Scala/Java, and Python APIs to merge, update, and delete datasets.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Governance

Delta Lake is an independent open-source project governed through the Linux Foundation Projects and is not controlled by a single company.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Integration example

The integrations page says Apache Spark can read from and write to Delta Lake.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Integration limit

The integrations page describes its ClickHouse integration as read-only for existing Delta Lake tables in Amazon S3.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Interoperability

Delta Universal Format lets Iceberg and Hudi clients read Delta tables.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Open format

Delta Universal Format (UniForm) lets Iceberg and Hudi clients read Delta tables.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Project governance

Delta Lake is an independent open-source project that the site says is not controlled by any single company and joined the Linux Foundation Projects in 2019.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Scalable metadata

The project says it can handle petabyte-scale tables with billions of partitions and files.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Schema controls

Schema evolution and enforcement help prevent bad data from causing corruption.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Sharing limit

Delta Sharing reads support batch, streaming, and table changes, but writing to a shared table is not supported.Read 7 Oct 2026 · docs.delta.io

Table scale

Its scalable metadata feature is described as handling petabyte-scale tables with billions of partitions and files.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Time travel

Users can access or revert to earlier data versions for audits, rollbacks, or reproducibility.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Transactions

Delta Lake supports ACID transactions and serializability, which the site describes as the strongest level of isolation.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

What it is

Delta Lake is an open-source storage framework for building format-agnostic lakehouse architectures.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

Who it is for

The project describes Delta Lake as usable with query engines across cloud, on-premises, and local environments.Read 7 Oct 2026 · delta.io

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