title: Databricks Delta and Hive Transactional Table
body: <p>I've seen from two sources that right now you cannot interact in any meaningful way with HIVE Transactional Tables from Spark.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-16996" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Hive ACID</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/156816/hive-transactional-tables-are-not-readable-by-spar.html#answer-form" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Hive Transactional Tables are not readable by spark</a></p>
  
  <p>I see Databricks has released a Transactional feature called <a href="https://docs.databricks.com/delta/delta-intro.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Databricks Delta</a>. Is it possible to now read HIVE Transactional Tables using this feature?</p>