Need for Speed: Benchmarking the Best Tools for Kafka to Delta Ingestion

Introduction

Welcome back to the second installment of our series on data ingestion from Kafka to Delta tables on the Databricks platform. Building on our previous discussion about generating and streaming synthetic data to a Kafka topic.

This blog post benchmarks three powerful options available on the Databricks platform for ingesting streaming data from Apache Kafka into Delta Lake: Databricks Jobs, Delta Live Tables (DLT), and Delta Live Tables Serverless (DLT…