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Expand data access through Apache Iceberg using Delta Lake UniForm on AWS
- Delta Lake UniForm is an open table format extension designed to provide a universal data representation that can be efficiently read by different processing engines.
- UniForm allows other table format clients such as Apache Iceberg to access Delta Lake tables.
- There are two options to use UniForm: create a new Delta Lake table with UniForm or enable UniForm on your existing Delta Lake table.
- Delta Lake UniForm expands data access to broader options of analytics engines.
- To create a new Delta Lake table with UniForm enabled, you configure table properties for UniForm in a CREATE TABLE DDL query.
- With Delta Lake UniForm, you can make the Delta Table compatible with the other open table formats such as Apache Iceberg.
- Delta Lake UniForm can be a solution to meet the data access requirement for cloud-based data warehouses such as Amazon Redshift for flexible analytics use cases.
- Enabling UniForm on a Delta Lake table doesn’t affect your current operations on the table, making it suitable if you have Delta Lake tables in your environment.
- UniForm generates multiple table format metadata without duplicating the actual data files.
- Delta Lake UniForm on AWS expands data access capabilities, allowing organizations to use a broader range of analytics engines and data warehouses such as Amazon Redshift.
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