Chapter 7: Delta for Data Warehouse Use Cases

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

– Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species. "Descent with modification"

In the previous chapters, we went over the main capabilities of Delta and its edge over other data formats and protocols. Delta has its origins in data lakes, and we examined how Delta addresses the common challenges of traditional data lakes. In fact, it is the evolutionary next stage of lakes and fits into a new category known as the data lakehouse. So, it is a no-brainer that it is the preferred choice for any new data lake initiative, but what about data warehouse use cases? Is that a separate category of data scenarios that data lakes do not tackle effectively?

The data warehouse is a concept that was born in the 1980s! It was popularized by relational database platforms. As is true of...