# Read a lakehouse table

Acquire / file

A variant of [Read a columnar file](https://meridian.online/operations/read-a-columnar-file).

Read a Delta Lake, Iceberg or Hudi table through its metadata, including earlier versions of it.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/read-a-columnar-file/read-a-lakehouse-table>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#read-a-columnar-file)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- Azure Data Factory: [`Delta format (source)`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/format-delta) (read 2026-09-27)
- Duckle: [`Apache Iceberg`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/website/docs/components.html) (read 2026-09-25)
- Duckle: [`Delta Lake`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/website/docs/components.html) (read 2026-09-25)
- AWS Glue: [`Delta Lake (read)`](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-programming-etl-format-delta-lake.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- AWS Glue: [`Hudi (read)`](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-programming-etl-format-hudi.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- AWS Glue: [`Iceberg (read)`](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-programming-etl-format-iceberg.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Spark lake table input`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/spark-lake-table-input.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Polars: [`read_delta`](https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/io.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Polars: [`scan_delta`](https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/io.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Polars: [`scan_iceberg`](https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/io.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Power Query M: [`DeltaLake.Metadata`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/accessing-data-functions) (read 2026-09-27)
- Power Query M: [`DeltaLake.Table`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/accessing-data-functions) (read 2026-09-27)