Additional Resources

Blog posts

• Diving Into Delta Lake: Unpacking The Transaction Log
• Diving Into Delta Lake: Schema Enforcement & Evolution
• Introducing Delta Time Travel for Large Scale Data Lakes
• Productionizing Machine Learning with Delta Lake
• Simplifying Streaming Stock Analysis using Delta Lake and Apache Spark

Talks

• Making Apache Spark™ Better with Delta Lake
• Delta Architecture, A Step Beyond Lambda Architecture
• Building Data Pipelines Using Structured Streaming and Delta Lake

Delta Lake transaction log specification

The Delta Lake transaction log has a well-defined open protocol that can be used to read the log by any system. See Delta Transaction Log Protocol.