https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/are-there-data-types-that-are-not-good-in-delta-format-does/m-p/13534#M8207 <P>Hi as it is transaction tables (there are history commits and snapshot). I would not store there images or videos as it can be saved few times and you will have high storage costs, it can also be slow when data is big.</P><P></P><P>I would definitely store images, audio and video in objects storage with ids, than in delta you could have just referencing id/path to file. Delta can be on the same blob storage (s3, Azure blob...) as objects.</P> Thu, 14 Oct 2021 08:08:02 GMT Hubert-Dudek 2021-10-14T08:08:02Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/are-there-data-types-that-are-not-good-in-delta-format-does/m-p/13533#M8206 Wed, 13 Oct 2021 21:55:42 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/are-there-data-types-that-are-not-good-in-delta-format-does/m-p/13533#M8206 StephanieAlba 2021-10-13T21:55:42Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/are-there-data-types-that-are-not-good-in-delta-format-does/m-p/13534#M8207 <P>Hi as it is transaction tables (there are history commits and snapshot). I would not store there images or videos as it can be saved few times and you will have high storage costs, it can also be slow when data is big.</P><P></P><P>I would definitely store images, audio and video in objects storage with ids, than in delta you could have just referencing id/path to file. Delta can be on the same blob storage (s3, Azure blob...) as objects.</P> Thu, 14 Oct 2021 08:08:02 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/are-there-data-types-that-are-not-good-in-delta-format-does/m-p/13534#M8207 Hubert-Dudek 2021-10-14T08:08:02Z