Hi Gourav, Thanks for the suggestion. Please open a Github issue at https://github.com/delta-io/delta/issues to describe your use case and requirements for "external tables" so we can better track this feature and also get feedback from the community.
Regards, Liwen On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:11 PM Gourav Sengupta <gourav.sengu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > does Delta support external tables? I think that most users will be > needing this. > > > Regards, > Gourav > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:04 PM Liwen Sun <liwen....@databricks.com> > wrote: > >> We are delighted to announce the availability of Delta Lake 0.2.0! >> >> To try out Delta Lake 0.2.0, please follow the Delta Lake Quickstart: >> https://docs.delta.io/0.2.0/quick-start.html >> >> To view the release notes: >> https://github.com/delta-io/delta/releases/tag/v0.2.0 >> >> This release introduces two main features: >> >> *Cloud storage support* >> In addition to HDFS, you can now configure Delta Lake to read and write >> data on cloud storage services such as Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage. >> For configuration instructions, please see: >> https://docs.delta.io/0.2.0/delta-storage.html >> >> *Improved concurrency* >> Delta Lake now allows concurrent append-only writes while still ensuring >> serializability. For concurrency control in Delta Lake, please see: >> https://docs.delta.io/0.2.0/delta-concurrency.html >> >> We have also greatly expanded the test coverage as part of this release. >> >> We would like to acknowledge all community members for contributing to >> this release. >> >> Best regards, >> Liwen Sun >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Delta Lake Users and Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to delta-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/delta-users/CAE4dWq9g90NkUr_SLs2J6kFPbOpxx4wy6MEgb%3DQ5pBxkUcK%2B-A%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/delta-users/CAE4dWq9g90NkUr_SLs2J6kFPbOpxx4wy6MEgb%3DQ5pBxkUcK%2B-A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >
