Delta Lake vs. Parquet: A Comparison

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  • delta

    An open-source storage framework that enables building a Lakehouse architecture with compute engines including Spark, PrestoDB, Flink, Trino, and Hive and APIs (by delta-io)

  • Delta is pretty great, let's you do upserts into tables in DataBricks much easier than without it.

    I think the website is here: https://delta.io

  • delta-rs

    A native Rust library for Delta Lake, with bindings into Python

  • I work at Databricks, but am pretty must just an OSS nerd, mainly focusing on Delta Rust recently: https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs

    I did some keyword research and wrote this post cause lots of folks are doing searches for Delta Lake vs Parquet. I'm just trying to share a fair summary of the tradeoffs with folks who are doing this search. It's a popular post and that's why I figured I would share it here.

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