Delta Live Tables (DLT)

Delta Live Tables was renamed - Databricks now calls it Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, as of June 2025.

Delta Live Tables → Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines

Declarative framework for batch and streaming ETL pipelines.

• Introduced at the 2021 Data + AI Summit, it let engineers build entire production pipelines by sprinkling the keyword LIVE into ordinary SQL and letting the framework untangle the dependencies for them. 🔗

Category

Data engineering

Abbreviation

DLT

In use from

2021🔗

Renamed

June 2025🔗

Verified

2026-07-23