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| * They are executed in a serial manner and don’t conflict with other transactions | ||
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| Data lakes don’t support transactions, so the write operations are dangerous: |
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Bit of weird sentence to read, maybe "Data lakes don't support transactions with the following characteristics"
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Thanks, updated this.
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| Delta tables can be queried with a variety of different languages. This project provides APIs for Rust and Python users and does not depend on Java or Scala. This project is a great alternative for users like that Rust, pandas, Polars, DuckDB, or DataFusion. | ||
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| The Delta Spark connector has APIs in Java, Scala, Python, and R. |
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maybe it can be confusing here, why we are talking about Delta Spark connector ?
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Yea, good call, removed this.
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| ## Support for many languages | ||
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| Delta tables can be queried with a variety of different languages. This project provides APIs for Rust and Python users and does not depend on Java or Scala. This project is a great alternative for users like that Rust, pandas, Polars, DuckDB, or DataFusion. |
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"for users like that Rust" "that" seems not needed here
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This documentation page explains why to use Delta Lake.
Let me know if you have any suggestions on key features I missed.
I also added some tabbed code blocks to show how to create tabbed snippets for python & Polars!