Term · Topic
Delta Lake
Delta Lake is an open source storage framework that adds ACID transactions, schema enforcement, and table management to data lakes, enabling enterprises to run reliable analytics and data science workloads on large-scale batch and streaming data stored in object stores.
- 1 article
- 4 companies
- Most covered: Confluent, Databricks, DELTA
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4 companies that coverage ties to the term, listed by how often, each linked to its own record.
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curl -X POST https://mcp.decisioninsights.ai/api/mcp-public \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-H "accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
-d '{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"tools/call","params":{"arguments":{"slug":"delta-lake"},"name":"di_get_term"}}'REST
GET https://api.decisioninsights.ai/api/public/v1/glossary/c25cb98e-ff77-437d-866f-e586831910f9CLI
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| The check | What the record shows | Where it is in the data |
|---|---|---|
| It's a known term | One entry, with its type (topic) | name |
| It's in real use | 1 article tags it; 4 companies are tied to it | subjectOf |
| It sits in a glossary | Linked to Data Lake, Cloud Data Lake, Data Lakehouse, Federated Data Lake | inDefinedTermSet |
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