General Concepts

Delta Lake

Definition

A table format that adds a transaction log on top of Parquet files. It enables ACID transactions, updates, deletes, schema enforcement, and queries over previous versions (time travel).

Exam context

In DP-900 it is the default table format in Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks lakehouses. OneLake stores data from almost every Fabric workload in Delta format.

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