This post explains the differences between Delta Lake and Parquet tables and why Delta Lakes are almost always a better option for real-world use cases. Delta Lake has all the benefits of Parquet tables and many other critical features for data practitioners. That’s why using a Delta Lake instead of a Parquet table is almost always advantageous. Parquet tables are OK when data is in a single file but are hard to manage and unnecessarily slow when data is in many files. Delta Lake makes it easy t...