Delta Lake — Partitioning, Z-Order and Liquid Clustering

How are different partitioning/clustering methods implemented in Delta? How do they work in practice?

Vitor Teixeira
Towards Data Science
10 min readNov 8, 2023

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One of the issues that make Big Data difficult has always been in its name, it is Big. Partitioning, especially when done well, has always been a way to improve query execution times on vast amounts…

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