Delta Live Tables leverage Delta Lake, or Delta Tables. Delta tables, through transactions (e.g. insert, update, delete, merges, optimization) create versions of said Delta Table. Once a version is created it cannot be altered, it is immutable. Yo...
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The producer does need a cluster to set up Delta Sharing. However, once the handoff happens no cluster is needed, the data will be delivered via storage services.
Multiple writers (inserts/appends) present no problems with Delta. You can have two users appending data to a Delta table at the same time without issue. Updates, deletes, merges, and compaction can run into issues when multiple user are trying to d...
