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Delta format in Azure Data Factory

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APPLIES TO: Azure Data Factory Azure Synapse Analytics

This article highlights how to copy data to and from a delta lake stored in Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 or Azure Blob Storage using the delta format. This connector is available as an inline dataset in mapping data flows as both a source and a sink.

Mapping data flow properties

This connector is available as an inline dataset in mapping data flows as both a source and a sink.

Source properties

The below table lists the properties supported by a delta source. You can edit these properties in the Source options tab.

Name Description Required Allowed values Data flow script property
Format Format must be delta yes delta format
File system The container/file system of the delta lake yes String fileSystem
Folder path The direct of the delta lake yes String folderPath
Compression type The compression type of the delta table no bzip2
gzip
deflate
ZipDeflate
snappy
lz4		 compressionType
Compression level Choose whether the compression completes as quickly as possible or if the resulting file should be optimally compressed. required if compressedType is specified. Optimal or Fastest compressionLevel
Time travel Choose whether to query an older snapshot of a delta table no Query by timestamp: Timestamp
Query by version: Integer		 timestampAsOf
versionAsOf
Allow no files found If true, an error is not thrown if no files are found no true or false ignoreNoFilesFound

Import schema

Delta is only available as an inline dataset and, by default, doesn't have an associated schema. To get column metadata, click the Import schema button in the Projection tab. This will allow you to reference the column names and data types specified by the corpus. To import the schema, a data flow debug session must be active and you must have an existing CDM entity definition file to point to.

Delta source script example

source(output(movieId as integer,
            title as string,
            releaseDate as date,
            rated as boolean,
            screenedOn as timestamp,
            ticketPrice as decimal(10,2)
            ),
    store: 'local',
    format: 'delta',
    versionAsOf: 0,
    allowSchemaDrift: false,
    folderPath: $tempPath + '/delta'
  ) ~> movies

Sink properties

The below table lists the properties supported by a delta sink. You can edit these properties in the Settings tab.

Name Description Required Allowed values Data flow script property
Format Format must be delta yes delta format
File system The container/file system of the delta lake yes String fileSystem
Folder path The direct of the delta lake yes String folderPath
Compression type The compression type of the delta table no bzip2
gzip
deflate
ZipDeflate
snappy
lz4		 compressionType
Compression level Choose whether the compression completes as quickly as possible or if the resulting file should be optimally compressed. required if compressedType is specified. Optimal or Fastest compressionLevel
Vacuum Specify retention threshold in hours for older versions of table. A value of 0 or less defaults to 30 days yes Integer vacuum
Update method Specify which update operations are allowed on the delta lake. For methods that aren't insert, a preceding alter row transformation is required to mark rows. yes true or false deletable
insertable
updateable
merge
Optimized Write Achieve higher throughput for write operation via optimizing internal shuffle in Spark executors. As a result, you may notice fewer partitions and files that are of a larger size no true or false optimizedWrite: true
Auto Compact After any write operation has completed, Spark will automatically execute the OPTIMIZE command to re-organize the data, resulting in more partitions if necessary, for better reading performance in the future no true or false autoCompact: true

Delta sink script example

The associated data flow script is:

moviesAltered sink(
          input(movieId as integer,
                title as string
            ),
           mapColumn(
                movieId,
                title
            ),
           insertable: true,
           updateable: true,
           deletable: true,
           upsertable: false,
           keys: ['movieId'],
            store: 'local',
           format: 'delta',
           vacuum: 180,
           folderPath: $tempPath + '/delta'
           ) ~> movieDB

Known limitations

When writing to a delta sink, there is a known limitation where the numbers of rows written won't be return in the monitoring output.

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