The Databricks SQL data explorer allows you to view your databases and tables, including the schema data shown here. IDG Viewing databases and tables with the Databricks SQL data explorer.

If you’re constructing a data lakehouse today, you’ll need a table format to build on. But which open table format should you choose: Apache Iceberg, Databricks Delta Table, or Apache Hudi? A good ...

Open Table Iceberg Support for ADLS Gen2 – Supports data migration and integration to Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 in Iceberg format, unlocking price-to-performance benefits of Iceberg in ...

But now the entirety of the Delta table format is going open source, as the creator of Delta explained this week at the Data + AI Summit. Prior to Delta, data lakes and data warehouses occupied ...

Data is laid out in a column-wise format, instead of row-wise. This speeds up processing the data, at the cost of making it slower to insert rows (assuming that’s even allowed).

Bucket nuggets. Amazon S3 Tables introduces a new “bucket type” that is purpose-built to optimise the storage and querying of tabular data as Apache Iceberg tables, delivering up to 3x faster ...