Where does databricks delta stores it's metadata?

Hive stores its metadata I'm external database like SQL server. Similar to that where does the databricks delta stores its metadata Information?

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zsxwing
zsxwing

Reputation: 20836

Databricks Delta stores its metadata on the file system. They are just files in either json (for each transaction) or parquet format (for a snapshot of the table metadata at some version).

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