Incremental tables

In big data, the amount of data is so vast that it is impossible to load all the data every time a few rows were added, the delays would be enormous. To solve this, incremental tables only loads those extra rows. The transformation that first took a few hours drops now down to a few seconds.

• dbt

An incremental model creates the whole table the first time it is run and then adapts the SQL code in an incremental run to incrementally transform the data

• Delta Live Tables

The incrementally transforming and loading of the data from a data lake to the data warehouse is both possible.

• Comparison

Both can incrementally transform data, but Delta Live Tables can also incrementally load data.