Delta is pretty great, let's you do upserts into tables in DataBricks much easier than without it. I think the website is here: https://delta.io. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Apache Iceberg is one of the three types of lakehouse, the other two are Apache Hudi and Delta Lake. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

The Apache Spark / Databricks community prefers Apache parquet or Linux Fundation's delta.io over json. Source: 7 months ago

Databricks provides Jupyter lab like notebooks for analysis and ETL pipelines using spark through pyspark, sparkql or scala. I think R is supported as well but it doesn't interop as well with their newer features as well as python and SQL do. It interfaces with cloud storage backend like S3 and offers some improvements to the parquet format of data querying that allows for updating, ordering and merged through... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Structured, Semi-structured and Unstructured can be stored in one single format, a lakehouse storage format like Delta, Iceberg or Hudi (assuming those don't require low-latency SLAs like subsecond). Source: about 1 year ago

In my day job[0], I talk to a lot of start-up ventures about blockchain. Only one was honest enough to say they were only using it because, at the time, it was easier to get funding. [0]: https://hyperledger.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Ethereum is not just currency at its core, its a smart contract platform which is used to implement distributed consensus, where each participating party sign the result, with their consensus algorithm. Currency is a side effect. You can just remove the entire ETH/gas dependency on the base, to use the platform as a distributed ledger between all the participants. And use another kind of consensus algo(proof of... Source: almost 3 years ago