DeltaFileFormat¶

DeltaFileFormat is an abstraction of format metadata that specify the file format of a delta table.

Contract¶

FileFormat¶

fileFormat: FileFormat

FileFormat (Spark SQL) of a delta table

Default: ParquetFileFormat (Spark SQL)

Used when:

• DeltaLog is requested for a relation (in batch queries) and DataFrame
• DeltaCommand is requested for a relation
• TransactionalWrite is requested to write data out

Implementations¶

• Snapshot