https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/difference-between-delta-live-tables-and-multitask-jobs/m-p/25600#M17835 Delta Live Tables provides and API for 'declarative data flow'. Instead of writing the code to manually read in data, apply transformations, and write it out, Delta Live tables instead asks you to declare the input source, the transformations, and the intended output source. The managed runtime will automatically optimize under the covers and perform the required reads, bookmarking, and compute logistics. It is very similar to how Terraform is declarative for building cloud infrastructure, whereas Delta Live Tables are declarative for data tables. Tue, 08 Jun 2021 14:58:00 GMT User16783855117 2021-06-08T14:58:00Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/difference-between-delta-live-tables-and-multitask-jobs/m-p/25599#M17834 <P>When should I use one over the other? There seems to be an overlap of some functionality </P> Tue, 08 Jun 2021 16:51:32 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/difference-between-delta-live-tables-and-multitask-jobs/m-p/25599#M17834 Anonymous 2021-06-08T16:51:32Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/difference-between-delta-live-tables-and-multitask-jobs/m-p/25600#M17835 Delta Live Tables provides and API for 'declarative data flow'. Instead of writing the code to manually read in data, apply transformations, and write it out, Delta Live tables instead asks you to declare the input source, the transformations, and the intended output source. The managed runtime will automatically optimize under the covers and perform the required reads, bookmarking, and compute logistics. It is very similar to how Terraform is declarative for building cloud infrastructure, whereas Delta Live Tables are declarative for data tables. Tue, 08 Jun 2021 14:58:00 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/difference-between-delta-live-tables-and-multitask-jobs/m-p/25600#M17835 User16783855117 2021-06-08T14:58:00Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/difference-between-delta-live-tables-and-multitask-jobs/m-p/25601#M17836 Delta Live Tables are targeted towards building an ETL pipeline where several Delta tables are interconnected from a flow perspective and in a single notebook. Multi-task Jobs is more generic orchestration framework that allows you to execute various Notebooks in a flow Wed, 09 Jun 2021 10:00:00 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/difference-between-delta-live-tables-and-multitask-jobs/m-p/25601#M17836 aladda 2021-06-09T10:00:00Z