Databricks Delta Live Tables 101

Originally published on Sync Computing Databricks’ DLT offering showcases a substantial improvement in the data engineer lifecycle and workflow. By offering a pre-baked, and opinionated pipeline construction ecosystem, Databricks has finally started offering a holistic end-to-end data engineering experience from inside of its own product, which provides superior solutions for raw data workflow, live batching and a host of other benefits detailed below. Since its release in 2022, Databricks’ Delta Live Tables have quickly become a go-to end-to-end resource for data engineers looking to build opinionated ETL pipelines for streaming data and big data. The pipeline management framework is considered one of most valuable offerings on the databricks platform, and is used by over 1,000 companies including Shell and H&R block. ...

March 8, 2024 · 7 min · 1281 words · Vinoo Ganesh