What is the best approach to use Delta tables without Unity Catalog enabled?

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Hello!

I would like to work with delta tables outside of Databricks UI notebook. I know that the best option would be to use databricks-connect but I don’t have Unity Catalog enabled.

What would be the most effective way to do so? I know that via JDBC using spark it is possible to read/write delta tables but is there an option to make some delta operations directly? Is there any other option than doing delta related operation in my local spark session?