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Delta Lake: Advanced Internals

Z-Order, deletion vectors, CDF, and production patterns.

Z-Order, OPTIMIZE, deletion vectors, change data feed, and Unity Catalog patterns at production scale.

Advanced8 chapters· 3h 35m· in Open Table Formats

Course content

  1. 01Inside the Log: Checkpoints and Snapshot Reconstruction🔒
  2. 02OPTIMIZE, Compaction, and the Small-File Problem🔒
  3. 03Data Skipping, Z-Ordering, and Liquid Clustering🔒
  4. 04Deletion Vectors and Merge-on-Read🔒
  5. 05Change Data Feed: Incremental Pipelines from the Log🔒
  6. 06Table Features, Protocol Versions, and Column Mapping🔒
  7. 07Unity Catalog, VACUUM, and Production Governance🔒
  8. 08Delta vs Iceberg, UniForm, and Honest Limitations🔒

Prerequisites

↗Delta Lake: Beginners Guide

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