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For tables or partitions, where the majority of records change every cycle, it is inefficient to do upsert or merge.  We want to provide hive like 'insert overwrite' API to ignore all the existing data and create a commit with just new data provided.  Doing this in Hoodie will provide better snapshot isolation than Hive because of atomic commits. These API can also be used for certain operational tasks to fix a specific corrupted partition. We can do 'insert overwrite'  on that partition with records from the source. This can be much faster than restore and replay for some data sources.

Background

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Implementation

Hoodie supports multiple write operations such as insert, upsert, bulk_insert on the target table.  At a high level, we like to add two new operations:

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