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What is Time Travel?

Last updated Sep 7, 2022 - Edit Source

With time travel, the  Data Lake Table Format versions the big data you store in your  Data Lake. You can access any historical version of that data, simplifying data management with easy-to-audit, rollback data in case of accidental bad writes or deletes, and reproduce experiments and reports. Time travel enables reproducible queries as you can query two different versions simultaneously.

Read more about how to build a Data Lake on top of it on our  Data Lake and Lakehouse Guide.