The modern way of sharing data

Modern data sharing must be open, secure, real-time, vendor-agnostic, and avoid the pitfalls of extracting and duplicating data for individual consumers of data in a collaborative environment. Delta Sharing is an open protocol for secure real-time data exchange of large datasets that satisfies all these criteria, supported by multiple clients and program languages, and vendor agnostic.

The following graphic gives an overview of the open eco system as of June 2023 that supports delta sharing:
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The open Delta Sharing protocol is aimed to solve the following problems:

• Share data without copying it to another system
• Producer controls the state of data (version of data)
• Be an open cross-platform solution
• Support a wide range of clients such as Power BI, Tableau, Apache Spark, pandas and Java
• Provide flexibility to consume data using the tools of choice for BI, machine learning and AI use cases
• Provide strong security, auditing, and governance
• Scale to massive data sets