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Are there data types that are not good in Delta format? Does Delta handle images, audio, and video?

StephanieAlba
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Hubert-Dudek
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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.

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.

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Hubert-Dudek
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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.

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.

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