Delta Lake API reference

Delta Lake is an open source storage layer that brings reliability to data lakes. Delta Lake provides ACID transactions, scalable metadata handling, and unifies streaming and batch data processing. Delta Lake runs on top of your existing data lake and is fully compatible with Apache Spark APIs.

The following Delta Lake API reference sets are available on the Delta Lake website:

• Python API. The main class is DeltaTable.

• Scala API. The main class is DeltaTable.

• Java API. The main class is DeltaTable.

To learn how to use the Delta Lake APIs on Databricks, see:

• What is Delta Lake?

• Tutorial: Delta Lake

See also the Delta Lake API documentation in the Databricks documentation.