What is Autolader in Databricks?

[User16826994223]

Want to Know what is Autoloader and what are its advantages

[sajith_appukutt]

https://databricks.com/blog/2020/02/24/introducing-databricks-ingest-easy-data-ingestion-into-delta-... ?

[MoJaMa]

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]

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.