# Databricks Delta Lake

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/databricks-delta-lake
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/databricks-delta-lake.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/databricks-delta-lake/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://delta.io
- **Slug:** databricks-delta-lake
- **Categories:** ai-machine-learning, data-analytics-business-intelligence, developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** The first major project to successfully bring ACID transactions and time-travel capabilities to cloud object storage at scale.
Source: Brand's website (https://delta.io) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Delta Lake is an open-source storage framework that enables building a Lakehouse architecture on top of existing cloud data lakes. It provides ACID transactions, scalable metadata handling, and unifies streaming and batch data processing while maintaining compatibility with Apache Spark APIs.
Source: Brand's website (https://delta.io) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Delta Lake Protocol
  - Delta Sharing
  - Delta Live Tables (Databricks-specific)
Source: Brand's website (https://delta.io) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Free (Open Source) / Subscription (via Databricks)
Source: Brand's website (https://delta.io) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Fortune 500 Enterprises, Cloud-native startups
Source: Brand's website (https://delta.io) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Apache Iceberg
  - Apache Hudi
  - Snowflake
Source: Brand's website (https://delta.io) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.