Storing data
The most convenient way to store data in Parabola is to use the Send to Parabola Tables step. A Parabola table is a data storage feature available to all users. Data stored in tables can be imported into other Flows as well.
Build your flow as you normally would, and then use the Send to Parabola Tables step to store the data. Be sure to choose to overwrite, append, or update based on your needs.
At this point, every time your flow runs, it should be storing data in the Parabola table.
Comparing data
When a Parabola flow runs, it pulls in fresh data from all source steps first, before continuing with the rest of the flow. We can use that to our advantage by importing the current stat of the Parabola table that your flow is writing data to, before the data is written out to it.
To do this, add a Pull from Parabola Tables step to your flow that is set to pull from the same Parabola table that this flow is set to send data to. When the flow runs, that step will pull your “historic” data.
Now you can compare that data to the data anywhere in your flow. The best way to compare data is to use a Find overlap step. That step will allow you to keep or remove rows from your data based on their existence in another table (in this case, the historic data from the Pull from Parabola Tables step). Configure that step to look at something like an ID column that is shared across both datasets.Last modified on February 26, 2026
