Prior to Delta, data lakes and data warehouses occupied separate worlds, explained Michael Armbrust, a Databricks distinguished software engineer and the creator of Delta Lake, Spark SQL, and Spark ...

Today, Databricks announced the release of Delta Lake 3.0 with a universal format allowing support for Apache Iceberg and Hudi.

Databricks today rolled out a new open table format in Delta Lake 3.0 that it says will eliminate the possibility of picking the wrong one. Dubbed Universal Format, or UniForm, the new table format ...

Databricks Inc. opens its Data + AI Summit today with the announcement that it will release the entirety of its Delta Lake storage framework to open-source under the oversight of the Linux Foundation.

The updates in Delta Lake 3.0 include a new universal table format, dubbed UniForm, a Delta Kernel, and liquid clustering to improve data read and write performance.

Databricks has launched Delta Live Tables (DLT), its ETL framework to automate data pipelines, in general availability for enterprises.

What’s maybe more exciting, though, is something Databricks calls Project Lightspeed, which the company describes as the next generation of the Spark streaming engine.