Delta Lake input connector

Delta Lake is an open-source storage framework for the Lakehouse architecture. It is typically used with the Apache Spark runtime. Data in a Delta Lake is organized in tables (called Delta Tables), stored in a file system or an object stores like AWS S3, Google GCS, or Azure Blob Storage. Like other Lakehouse-native storage formats, Delta Lake is optimized for both batch and stream processing, offering a bridge between the two worlds.

Delta Lake input connector configuration

Required parameters

uri - Table URI, e.g., "s3://feldera-fraud-detection-data/demographics_train"
mode - Table read mode. Three options are available:
- snapshot - read a snapshot of the table and stop.
- follow - follow the changelog of the table, only ingesting changes (new and deleted rows)
- snapshot_and_follow - Read a snapshot of the table before switching to the follow mode. This mode implements the backfill pattern where we load historical data for the table before ingesting the stream of real-time updates.

Optional parameters

timestamp_column - Table column that serves as an event timestamp. When this option is specified, and mode is one of snapshot or snapshot_and_follow, the snapshot of the table is ingested in the timestamp order. This setting is required for tables declared with the LATENESS attribute in Feldera SQL. It impacts the performance of the connector, since data must be sorted before pushing it to the pipeline; therefore it is not recommended to use this settings for tables without LATENESS.
snapshot_filter - Optional row filter. This option is only valid when mode is set to snapshot or snapshot_and_follow. When specified, only rows that satisfy the filter condition are included in the snapshot. The condition must be a valid SPARK SQL Boolean expression that can be used in the where clause of the select * from snapshot where .. query.
This option can be used for example to specify the range of event times to include in the snapshot, e.g.: ts BETWEEN '2005-01-01 00:00:00' AND '2010-12-31 23:59:59'.
version - Optional table version. When this option is set, the connector finds and opens the specified version of the table. In snapshot and snapshot_and_follow modes, it retrieves the snapshot of this version of the table. In follow and snapshot_and_follow modes, it follows transaction log records after this version.
Note: at most one of version and datetime options can be specified. When neither of the two options is specified, the latest committed version of the table is used.
datetime - Optional timestamp for the snapshot in the ISO-8601/RFC-3339 format, e.g., "2024-12-09T16:09:53+00:00". When this option is set, the connector finds and opens the version of the table as of the specified point in time (based on the server time recorded in the transaction log, not the event time encoded in the data). In snapshot and snapshot_and_follow modes, it retrieves the snapshot of this version of the table. In follow and snapshot_and_follow modes, it follows transaction log records after this version.
Note: at most one of version and datetime options can be specified. When neither of the two options is specified, the latest committed version of the table is used.

Storage parameters

Along with the parameters mentioned above, there are additional configuration options for specific storage backends. Refer to backend-specific documentation for details:

Example usage

Create a Delta Lake input connector that reads a snapshot of a table from a public S3 bucket. Note the aws_skip_signature flag, required to read from the bucket without authentcation. The snapshot will be sorted by the unix_time column.

CREATE TABLE INPUT (
   ... -- columns omitted
) WITH (
  'connectors' = '[
    {
      "transport": {
        "name": "delta_table_input",
        "config": {
          "uri": "s3://feldera-fraud-detection-data/transaction_train",
          "mode": "snapshot",
          "aws_skip_signature": "true",
          "timestamp_column": "unix_time"
        }
      }
    }]'
)

Read a full snapshot of version 10 of the table before ingesting the stream of changes for versions 11 onward. The initial snapshot will be sorted by the unix_time column. Here and below we only show the contents of the transport.config field of the connector.

{
  "uri": "s3://feldera-fraud-detection-data/transaction_infer",
  "mode": "snapshot_and_follow",
  "version": 10,
  "timestamp_column": "unix_time",
  "aws_skip_signature": "true"
}

Read a full snapshot of a Delta table using the specified AWS access key. Note that the aws_region parameter is required in this case, because the Delta Lake Rust library we use does not currently auto-detect the AWS region.

{
  "uri": "s3://feldera-fraud-detection-demo/transaction_train",
  "mode": "snapshot",
  "aws_access_key_id": <AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID>,
  "aws_secret_access_key": <AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>,
  "aws_region": "us-east-1"
}

Delta Lake input connector