Streaming with Delta table source- definition of "File"?

[Michael_Galli]

Hi all,

I have a Delta Table as a Spark Streaming source.

This table contains signals on row level -> each signal is one append to the source table that creates a new version in the delta transaction history.

I am not really sure now how Spark streaming works if I define

spark

    .readStream

    .format("delta")

    .option("startingVersion", "latest")

    .option("maxFilesPerTrigger ", 100)

Are those the last 100 transactions from the delta transaction history? Or the last 100 parquet files?

Best regards

Michael

[jose_gonzalez]

Hi @Michael Galli​ ,

The maxFilesPerTrigger will measure how many new files to be considered in every micro-batch. The default is 1000. These will be the files associated to your Delta table. So, technically, these will be the parquet files.

[Michael_Galli]

Thx @Jose Gonzalez​ , this makes sense..

What I do not fully understand is the role of the Delta table transaction log in this matter.

E.g. maxFilesPerTrigger is set to 100 files for each micro-batch.

If the Delta transactions of the streaming source looks somewhat like this:E.g. there are 70 files per transaction. Will the micro batch 1 contain files from version 0 and 1, micro batch 2 contain files from version 1 and 2, and so on? So the Delta Table version is not really relevant for the streaming micro badge sizing?

[Vidula]

Hey there @Michael Galli​ 

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