Delta Lake - Deep Dive

In this chapter, we will examine a crucial aspect of the lakehouse paradigm: the storage format for your data. As discussed in Chapter 1 , the ideal storage format for a lakehouse is one that provides similar data management and performance features of a data warehouse but is an open format and built on top of cloud data lakes. Delta Lake is a storage protocol that exactly fits the requirements. Delta Lake is an open, performant storage format that enables organizations to build data lakehouses, allowing data warehousing and machine learning directly on the data lake.