What is Delta Lake

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A financial firm uses Delta Lake in Microsoft Fabric to prevent data corruption during concurrent writes.

Synonyms:
ACID data lake storage layer, Transactional lake storage
Defnition:
Delta Lake is a transactional storage layer that brings ACID compliance, schema enforcement, and time travel to data lakes, enabling reliable analytics and AI workloads.

Variations:
Delta tables, Delta Lake storage format

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