Delta Lake
by Linux Foundation (Delta Lake Project) · free · Last verified 2026-03-17
Delta Lake is an open-source storage layer that brings ACID transactions and reliability to data lakes. Built on top of Parquet files, it enables features like schema enforcement, time travel for data versioning, and unified batch and streaming data processing. It serves as the foundational storage format for the Lakehouse architecture.
https://delta.io ↗B
B—Above Average
Adoption: B+Quality: AFreshness: ACitations: B+Engagement: F
Specifications
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Pricing
- free
- Capabilities
- ACID Transactions on Data Lakes, Schema Enforcement and Evolution, Time Travel (Data Versioning), Unified Batch and Streaming Source/Sink, Full DML Support (UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE), Change Data Feed (CDF), Scalable Metadata Handling, Audit History and Logging, Liquid Clustering for dynamic partitioning, Data Compaction (OPTIMIZE)
- Integrations
- Apache Spark, Databricks, Presto, Trino, Apache Flink, Apache Hive, Power BI, Tableau, Delta Rust (Python, Rust bindings), Snowflake
- Use Cases
- [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object]
- API Available
- No
- SDK Languages
- python, scala, java, rust
- Deployment
- self-hosted, databricks, cloud, kubernetes
- Rate Limits
- N/A (open-source)
- Data Privacy
- Data resides in customer-controlled object storage
- Tags
- data-lake, lakehouse, storage-format, acid-transactions, time-travel, data-versioning, apache-spark, big-data, etl, streaming-data, open-source, parquet
- Added
- 2026-03-17
- Completeness
- 0.7%
Index Score
67.3Adoption
75
Quality
89
Freshness
85
Citations
78
Engagement
0