# Introduction to Delta Lake
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Delta Lake is an open-source project that helps implement modern data lake architectures commonly built on Amazon S3. Delta Lake offers the following capabilities:
+ Atomic, consistent, isolated, durable (ACID) transactions on Spark. Readers see a consistent view of the table during a Spark job.
+ Scalable metadata handling with distributed processing by Spark.
+ Combines streaming and batch uses cases with the same Delta table.
+ Automatic schema enforcement to avoid bad records during data ingestion.
+ Time travel with data versioning.
+ Supports merge, update, and delete operations for complex use cases like change data capture (CDC), streaming upserts, and more.