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What is Autolader in Databricks?

User16826994223
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Want to Know what is Autoloader and what are its advantages

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sajith_appukutt
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MoJaMa
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

To add,

Starting in DBR 8.2, Autoloader supports JSON

Starting in DBR 8.3, Autoloader supports CSV

It also now supports Schema Inference, Schema Evolution and Schema Hints.

https://docs.databricks.com/spark/latest/structured-streaming/auto-loader-schema.html

MoJaMa
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

The biggest advantage is the ease with which you can star ingesting data from your Cloud Storage directly into a Delta Table. You can choose Directory Listing mode or File Notification mode, depending on what fits your use case best.

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